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From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH v5] man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs. --output=files confusion
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:26:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1394432769-3518-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <108f8bb2ea61552c84c342af81bf312df308f619.1394400503.git.jani@nikula.org>

---
 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 7ac6c68e68ac..90160f21e23c 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
-- 
1.9.0

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-09 21:40 [PATCH v4 00/13] boolean folder: and path: searches Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] test: rearrange the test corpus into subfolders Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] test: add notmuch_search_files_sanitize and use it Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] lib: refactor folder term update after filename removal Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] lib: add support for path: prefix searches Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] test: make insert test use the path: prefix Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] lib: make folder: prefix literal Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] test: add tests for the new boolean folder: and path: prefixes Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] test: add database upgrade test from format version 1 to 2 Jani Nikula
2014-03-10 23:14   ` David Bremner
2014-03-11  5:42     ` [PATCH v5] " Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] man: update man pages for folder: and path: search terms Jani Nikula
2014-03-10  6:25   ` [PATCH v5] " Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs. --output=files confusion Jani Nikula
2014-03-10  6:26   ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] devel: add script to generate test databases Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] test: commit folders-v1.tar.xz checksum, ignore actual databases Jani Nikula
2014-03-09 21:40 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] test: add machinery to download and verify databases Jani Nikula
2014-03-10  6:24   ` [PATCH v5] " Jani Nikula
2014-03-10 18:28 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] boolean folder: and path: searches Austin Clements
2014-03-10 21:57 ` Tomi Ollila

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