--- a/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
+++ b/src/doc/man/recollindex.1
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
<configdir>
]
.B \-i
+[
+.B \-f
+]
[<filename [filename ...]>]
.br
.B recollindex
@@ -111,11 +114,18 @@
.B recollindex \-l
will list the names of available language stemmers.
.PP
-The other modes are useful mainly for testing.
-.PP
.B recollindex \-i
-will index individual files into the database. The stem expansion databases
-will not be updated.
+will index individual files into the database. The stem expansion and
+aspell databases will not be updated. The skippedPaths and skippedNames
+configuration variables will be used, so that some files may be
+skipped. You can tell recollindex to ignore skippedPaths and skippedNames
+by setting the
+.B
+\-f
+option. This allows fully custom file selection for a given subtree,
+for which you would add the top directory to skippedPaths, and use any
+custom tool to generate the file list (ie: a tool from a source code
+control system).
.PP
.B recollindex \-e
will erase data for individual files from the database. The stem expansion