diff --git a/tools/bin/github_md2html b/tools/bin/github_md2html
index 6129b665..249abea7 100755
--- a/tools/bin/github_md2html
+++ b/tools/bin/github_md2html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
-# $Id: github_md2html 1033 2018-07-03 05:59:02Z mueller $
+# $Id: github_md2html 1057 2018-10-19 15:06:42Z mueller $
 #
 # Copyright 2016-2018 by Walter F.J. Mueller <W.F.J.Mueller@gsi.de>
 #
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #
 #  Revision History:
 # Date         Rev Version  Comment
+# 2018-10-19  1057   1.1.3  add --verbose; don't list up-to-date files anymore
 # 2018-07-02  1033   1.1.2  use non-greedy match in -stand code
 # 2018-05-13  1021   1.1.1  handle fragment identifiers in -standalone mapping
 # 2017-01-02   837   1.1    add -standalone and -trace; add rate wait
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ use JSON::XS;
 my %opts = ();
 
 GetOptions(\%opts,
-           "context:s", "force", "standalone", "trace",
+           "context:s", "force", "standalone", "trace", "verbose",
            "dump", "help") || exit 1;
 
 my $url_ghapi_md     = "https://api.github.com/markdown";
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ sub do_md2html {
   }
 
   unless ($doit) {
-    print "$ifile: ok\n";
+    print "$ifile: ok\n" if $opts{verbose};
     return;
   }
 
diff --git a/tools/man/man1/github_md2html.1 b/tools/man/man1/github_md2html.1
index 52eb895a..7fce95c8 100644
--- a/tools/man/man1/github_md2html.1
+++ b/tools/man/man1/github_md2html.1
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 .\"  -*- nroff -*-
-.\"  $Id: github_md2html.1 845 2017-01-15 14:58:27Z mueller $
+.\"  $Id: github_md2html.1 1064 2018-11-03 09:24:13Z mueller $
 .\"
-.\" Copyright 2017- by Walter F.J. Mueller <W.F.J.Mueller@gsi.de>
+.\" Copyright 2017-2018 by Walter F.J. Mueller <W.F.J.Mueller@gsi.de>
 .\" 
 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------
 .
-.TH GITHUB_MD2HTML 1 2017-01-02 "Retro Project" "Retro Project Manual"
+.TH GITHUB_MD2HTML 1 2018-11-03 "Retro Project" "Retro Project Manual"
 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH NAME
 github_md2html \- convert markdown to html with GitHub API
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ with a browser.
 .\" ----------------------------------------------
 .IP "\fB\-trace\fR"
 trace link mapping in \fI-standalone\fP mode.
+.\" ----------------------------------------------
+.IP "\fB\-verbose\fR"
+print status of each inspected file. Default is to list only converted files.
 .
 .\" ----------------------------------------------
 .IP "\fB\-context \fIcont\fR"