From 9981f995c6a4122f1adf4bac5febf31e3c147d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:19:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: give a hint about using sort to achieve the old dump
 behavior.

This is needed for a few applications, and actually is quite
fast (relative to the actual dump).
---
 NEWS | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2bf739d2..6b3f37ad 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Automatic tag query optimization
 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
 
   This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
-  information.
+  information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
+  example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
 
 Memory Management
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