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From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
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Subject: [PATCH v5] man: try to clarify the folder: and path: vs.
	--output=files confusion
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:26:09 +0200
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---
 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