# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1488415085 -3600
# Node ID 04077d4d0478f5c2575131194358fbbb7436ba1c
# Parent  f6877b2574111366b46e1095e6624cea7ac288e5
Added a note about incremental compilation.

diff -r f6877b257411 -r 04077d4d0478 docs/lplc.1
--- a/docs/lplc.1	Thu Mar 02 01:31:14 2017 +0100
+++ b/docs/lplc.1	Thu Mar 02 01:38:05 2017 +0100
@@ -87,6 +87,17 @@
 .TP
 .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
 Show version information for this tool
+.SH INCREMENTAL COMPILATION
+Invocations of
+.B lplc
+without the reset options
+.BR \-r ", " \-\-reset ", " \-R " or " \-\-reset\-all
+will cause incremental translation and compilation to be attempted. Where
+existing translated sources exist and where no changes to the object structures
+or callable signatures are made, only updated sources will be generated and
+compiled. Otherwise, where structures or signatures change in a way that is
+incompatible with already-compiled code, the entire program will be generated
+and compiled again.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 Compile the main program in
 .BR hello.py ,