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-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt
index 71eb081fed..80ffceada0 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt
@@ -142,10 +142,9 @@ system or global config value to one of the following:
include::../trace2-target-values.txt[]
-If the target already exists and is a directory, the traces will be
-written to files (one per process) underneath the given directory. They
-will be named according to the last component of the SID (optionally
-followed by a counter to avoid filename collisions).
+When trace files are written to a target directory, they will be named according
+to the last component of the SID (optionally followed by a counter to avoid
+filename collisions).
== Trace2 API
diff --git a/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt b/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt
index 27d3c64e66..3985b6d3c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
* `0` or `false` - Disables the target.
* `1` or `true` - Writes to `STDERR`.
* `[2-9]` - Writes to the already opened file descriptor.
-* `<absolute-pathname>` - Writes to the file in append mode.
+* `<absolute-pathname>` - Writes to the file in append mode. If the target
+already exists and is a directory, the traces will be written to files (one
+per process) underneath the given directory.
* `af_unix:[<socket_type>:]<absolute-pathname>` - Write to a
Unix DomainSocket (on platforms that support them). Socket
type can be either `stream` or `dgram`; if omitted Git will