From 6c6b3d9aa5ef1089de7f52a8cb4ed21996a4d10c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:22:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] -U is now implemented.  (It's been recognized by bsdtar for a
 while; now libarchive actually supports the underlying request.)

---
 usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1 | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1 b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1
index 900502f238d1..6a3d79463606 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1
+++ b/usr.bin/tar/bsdtar.1
@@ -272,7 +272,10 @@ specified on the following line.
 .It Fl U
 (x mode only)
 Unlink files before creating them.
-(Not yet implemented.)
+Without this option,
+.Nm
+overwrites existing files, which preserves existing hardlinks.
+With this option, existing hardlinks will be broken.
 .It Fl v
 Produce verbose output.
 In create and extract modes,