From 4ad42dc531fb973841d148295c855c92d60dd240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:58:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] clarify tarfileset documentation.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@269483 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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 docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html
index 663bbad48..a0b23101a 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/tar.html
@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ the executable files and include all others. </p>
 by one fileset. If the same file is selected by more than one fileset, it will be included in the 
 tar file twice, with the same path.</p>
 
+<p><strong>Note:</strong> The patterns in the include and exclude
+elements are considered to be relative to the corrseponding dir
+attribute as with all other filesets.  In the example above,
+<code>${dist.name}</code> is not an absolute path, but a simple name
+of a directory, so <code>${dist.name}</code> is a valid path relative
+to <code>${dist.name}/..</code>.</p>
+
 <hr>
 <p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2000,2001 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
 Reserved.</p>