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authorErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2015-02-12 11:42:43 +0000
committerErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2015-02-12 11:42:43 +0000
commit1ed836cc2b909e0bcd439964173008e9755c4750 (patch)
tree65862dbcf81107332c0c7c65a2eda86eb6afc9ba /synapse/config/server.py
parentMerge pull request #59 from matrix-org/hotfixes-v0.6.1f (diff)
parentExpand on caching (diff)
downloadsynapse-1ed836cc2b909e0bcd439964173008e9755c4750.tar.xz
Merge branch 'release-v0.7.0' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse v0.7.0
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py
index 4f73c85466..31e44cc857 100644
--- a/synapse/config/server.py
+++ b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -47,8 +47,12 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
     def add_arguments(cls, parser):
         super(ServerConfig, cls).add_arguments(parser)
         server_group = parser.add_argument_group("server")
-        server_group.add_argument("-H", "--server-name", default="localhost",
-                                  help="The name of the server")
+        server_group.add_argument(
+            "-H", "--server-name", default="localhost",
+            help="The domain name of the server, with optional explicit port. "
+                 "This is used by remote servers to connect to this server, "
+                 "e.g. matrix.org, localhost:8080, etc."
+        )
         server_group.add_argument("--signing-key-path",
                                   help="The signing key to sign messages with")
         server_group.add_argument("-p", "--bind-port", metavar="PORT",