Merge pull request #1027 from ctheune/master

Clarify keyprefix behaviour in docs
10 years ago · 2a9de3ea7a
parent 1b4167699f 74ac30c601
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--- a/website/source/docs/agent/watches.html.markdown
+++ b/website/source/docs/agent/watches.html.markdown
@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ An example of the output of this command:
 ### <a name="keyprefix"></a>Type: keyprefix

 The "keyprefix" watch type is used to watch a prefix of keys in the KV store.
-It requires that the "prefix" parameter be specified.
+It requires that the "prefix" parameter be specified. This watch
+returns *all* keys matching the prefix whenever *any* key matching the prefix
+changes.

 This maps to the `/v1/kv/` API internally.