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diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 456bd4ff..5c11d956 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -943,13 +943,14 @@ destination exactly matches that on the source.  Cases in which the
 destination may end up with extra hard links include the following:
 
 quote(itemization(
-  it() If the destination already contains hard links, rsync will not break
-  them explicitly.  However, if one or more of the paths have content
-  differences, the normal file-update process will break those links, unless
-  you are using the bf(--inplace) option.
+  it() If the destination contains extraneous hard-linked files, rsync will not
+  break them explicitly.  However, if one or more of the paths have content
+  differences, the normal file-update process will break those extra links
+  (unless you are using the bf(--inplace) option).
   it() If you specify a bf(--link-dest) directory that contains hard links,
-  rsync may use the same bf(--link-dest) file multiple times via several of
-  its paths.
+  the linking of the destination files against the bf(--link-dest) files can
+  cause some paths in the destination to become linked together due to the
+  bf(--link-dest) associations.
 ))
 
 Note that rsync can only detect hard links between files that are inside
@@ -1489,7 +1490,7 @@ initial items are marked as perishable -- see the FILTER RULES section):
 
 quote(quote(tt(RCS SCCS CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags TAGS .make.state
 .nse_depinfo *~ #* .#* ,* _$* *$ *.old *.bak *.BAK *.orig *.rej .del-*
-*.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/ .git/ .bzr/)))
+*.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/ .git/ .hg/ .bzr/)))
 
 then, files listed in a $HOME/.cvsignore are added to the list and any
 files listed in the CVSIGNORE environment variable (all cvsignore names
@@ -1619,6 +1620,12 @@ bf(--files-from) filenames are being sent from one host to another, the
 filenames will be translated from the sending host's charset to the
 receiving host's charset.
 
+NOTE: sorting the list of files in the --files-from input helps rsync to be
+more efficient, as it will avoid re-visiting the path elements that are shared
+between adjacent entries.  If the input is not sorted, some path elements
+(implied directories) may end up being scanned multiple times, and rsync will
+eventually unduplicate them after they get turned into file-list elements.
+
 dit(bf(-0, --from0)) This tells rsync that the rules/filenames it reads from a
 file are terminated by a null ('\0') character, not a NL, CR, or CR+LF.
 This affects bf(--exclude-from), bf(--include-from), bf(--files-from), and any