From 3b30f00a1252d7b5f765b38268ccaabc11816c4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Eskildsen <sirup@sirupsen.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 21:46:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] readme: document log rotation

---
 README.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 318c2a9..baf1af5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -269,4 +269,11 @@ func (f *JSONFormatter) Format(entry *Entry) ([]byte, error) {
 }
 ```
 
+#### Rotation
+
+Log rotation is not provided with Logrus. Log rotation should be done by an
+external program (like `logrotated(8)`) that can compress and delete old log
+entries. It should not be a feature of the application-level logger.
+
+
 [godoc]: https://godoc.org/github.com/Sirupsen/logrus