From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 14:25:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add minimal note about shared options.
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[PATCH] doc: add minimal note about shared options.
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+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: [PATCH] doc: add minimal note about shared options.
+Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2015 16:25:50 +0200
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+The example is a bit silly, but notmuch subcommand --help is actually
+not equivalent to "notmuch --help subcommand".
+---
+ doc/man1/notmuch.rst | 4 ++++
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst
+index b33738e..ae0461a 100644
+--- a/doc/man1/notmuch.rst
++++ b/doc/man1/notmuch.rst
+@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ Supported global options for ``notmuch`` include
+         Specify the configuration file to use. This overrides any
+         configuration file specified by ${NOTMUCH\_CONFIG}.
+ 
++All global options except ``--config`` can also be specified after the
++command. For example, ``notmuch subcommand --version`` is equivalent to
++``notmuch --version subcommand``.
++
+ COMMANDS
+ ========
+ 
+-- 
+2.1.4
+