[PATCH v2 13/13] man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs. --output=files confusion

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Sat Feb 22 14:25:44 PST 2014


---
 man/man1/notmuch-search.1 | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 55a81e79fce4..a2b1ae43f411 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
@@ -82,8 +82,14 @@ one per line (\-\-format=text), separated by null characters
 S-Expression list (\-\-format=sexp).
 
 Note that each message may have multiple filenames associated with it.
-All of them are included in the output, unless limited with the
-\-\-duplicate=N option.
+All of them are included in the output (unless limited with the
+\-\-duplicate=N option). This may be particularly confusing for
+.B folder:
+or
+.B path:
+searches in a specified directory, as the messages may have duplicates
+in other directories that are included in the output, although these
+files alone would not match the search.
 .RE
 .RS 4
 .TP 4
-- 
1.8.5.3



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