--- a/doc/hg.1.txt	Tue Aug 29 19:02:57 2006 +0200
+++ b/doc/hg.1.txt	Tue Aug 29 19:26:58 2006 +0200
@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@
     global /etc/mercurial/hgrc configuration.  See hgrc(5) for details of
     the contents and format of these files.
 
+Some commands (e.g. revert) produce backup files ending in .orig, if
+the .orig file already exists and is not tracked by Mercurial, it
+will be overwritten.
+
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