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

mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo "invalid" > .hg/hgrc
hg status 2>&1 |sed -e "s:/.*\(/t/.*\):...\1:"