From 5348d1987cc34381aff94f64c577984de5788e6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 23:14:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs. --output=files
confusion
---
doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst
index 7ac6c68e..90160f21 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-search.rst
@@ -64,8 +64,13 @@ Supported options for **search** include
(--format=json), or as an 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.
+ associated with it. All of them are included in the output
+ (unless limited with the --duplicate=N option). This may
+ be particularly confusing for **folder:** or **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.
**tags**
Output all tags that appear on any message matching the
--
2.45.2