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From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/13] man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs. --output=files confusion
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:25:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b3dd2d1cc6c413ea07ea326883ac448499c0e79.1393105055.git.jani@nikula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1393105055.git.jani@nikula.org>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1393105055.git.jani@nikula.org>

---
 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-22 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-22 22:25 [PATCH v2 00/13] literal folder: prefix, new path: prefix Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] lib: refactor folder term update after filename removal Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] lib: add support for path: prefix searches Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] test: make insert test use the path: prefix Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] lib: make folder: prefix literal Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] test: fix test for literal folder: search Jani Nikula
2014-02-23 14:02   ` David Bremner
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] test: make it possible to have several corpora Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] test: add new corpus with folders Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] test: add tests for the new boolean folder: and path: prefixes Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] devel: add script to generate test databases Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] test: add test database in format version 1 Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] test: add database upgrade test from format version 1 to 2 Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] man: update man pages for folder: and path: search terms Jani Nikula
2014-02-22 22:25 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2014-02-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] literal folder: prefix, new path: prefix Mark Walters
2014-02-23 11:15   ` Tomi Ollila
2014-03-02 19:11 ` David Bremner
2014-03-04 19:37   ` Jani Nikula
2014-03-04 21:15     ` David Bremner
2014-03-05  8:39       ` Tomi Ollila
2014-03-05 11:48         ` David Bremner
2014-03-05 13:10           ` Tomi Ollila
2014-03-05 14:41             ` David Bremner
2014-03-05 15:40               ` Tomi Ollila

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