Add a pointer to "hg -v help" to the bottom of hg help {,cmd} output This should make it easier to discover global options. As a bonus, they are no longer displayed by something like a hg -v help dates

#!/bin/sh

hg init
python -c 'print "confuse str.splitlines\nembedded\rnewline"' > a
hg ci -Ama -d '1 0'
echo clean diff >> a
hg ci -mb -d '2 0'
hg diff -r0 -r1