From 73eda0ddd00b38f67002ccaa419e16b99b3e0f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilayaperumal Gopinathan <igopinathan@pivotal.io>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:06:05 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add doc for startOffset usage

 - Clarify based on the consumerGroup property

Resolves #48
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 .../src/main/asciidoc/overview.adoc                              | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-binder-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/overview.adoc b/spring-cloud-stream-binder-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/overview.adoc
index 89cc90fa6..6980a0b0d 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-binder-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/overview.adoc
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-binder-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/overview.adoc
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ Default: `false`.
 startOffset::
   The starting offset for new groups, or when `resetOffsets` is `true`.
 Allowed values: `earliest`, `latest`.
+If the consumer group is set explicitly for the consumer 'binding' (via `spring.cloud.stream.bindings.<channelName>.group`), then 'startOffset' is set to `earliest`; otherwise it is set to `latest` for the `anonymous` consumer group.
 +
 Default: null (equivalent to `earliest`).
 enableDlq::