- Added warning outputs if the command line uses more than one of the options

  -v, --trace and --trace-ascii, since it could really confuse the user.
  Clarified this fact in the man page.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 56659e8c8..245ef3d5e 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1033,6 +1033,9 @@ Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, including
 descriptive information, to the given output file. Use "-" as filename to have
 the output sent to stdout.
 
+This option overrides previous uses of \fI-v/--verbose\fP or
+\fI--trace-ascii\fP.
+
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--trace-ascii <file>"
 Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, including
@@ -1043,6 +1046,8 @@ This is very similar to \fI--trace\fP, but leaves out the hex part and only
 shows the ASCII part of the dump. It makes smaller output that might be easier
 to read for untrained humans.
 
+This option overrides previous uses of \fI-v/--verbose\fP or \fI--trace\fP.
+
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--trace-time"
 Prepends a time stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl displays.
@@ -1084,7 +1089,9 @@ might be option you're looking for.
 If you think this option still doesn't give you enough details, consider using
 \fI--trace\fP or \fI--trace-ascii\fP instead.
 
-If this option is used twice, the second will again disable verbose.
+This option overrides previous uses of \fI--trace-ascii\fP or \fI--trace\fP.
+
+If this option is used twice, the second will do nothing extra.
 .IP "-V/--version"
 Displays information about curl and the libcurl version it uses.