From: Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 19:50:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: clarify search --exclude=flag
X-Git-Tag: 0.16_rc1~143
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=obsolete%2Fnotmuch-old;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3ed77068310122d98f6d2c60f5a0d3a29d89606

man: clarify search --exclude=flag

Improve the description of the search --exclude=flag option,
using text taken from the commit that introduced the option.
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diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 59e8f341..da2f1dd1 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
@@ -147,9 +147,11 @@ results. Excluded messages are still marked in the relevant outputs.
 
 .B flag
 only has an effect when
-.B --output=summary
-In this case all matching threads are returned but the "match count"
-is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the thread.
+.BR --output=summary .
+The output is almost identical to
+.BR false ,
+but the "match count" is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the
+thread, rather than the number of matching messages.
 .RE
 
 .SH EXIT STATUS