From 739c7e224a56b3008c9496d8711fbf8276b46034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:58:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] document backwards compatibility hack in chmod.  PR 41054

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@687765 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 docs/manual/CoreTasks/chmod.html | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/chmod.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/chmod.html
index 8d12c255c..64fa55a39 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/chmod.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/chmod.html
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ could use as initial value for these experiments.</p>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">dir</td>
     <td valign="top">the directory which holds the files whose permissions 
-      must be changed.</td>
+      must be changed.<br/>
+      <b>Note:</b> for backwards compatibility
+      reasons <code>&lt;chmod&nbsp;dir="some-dir"/&gt;</code> will
+      only change the permissions on "some-dir" but not recurse into
+      it, unless you also specify any patterns.</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">perm</td>