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
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%% uncompressed contents in repo
this is a test
%% uncompress our working dir copy
this is a test
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
%% uncompress our new working dir copy
this is a test