Clarify help messages for path args to mention datadir prefix

Change `-conf`'s and others' help messages to indicate that relative path
values will be prefixed by the datadir path. This behavior is confusing when
attempting to specify a configuration file in the current directory with
`-conf=bitcoin.conf`, but loading the `bitcoin.conf` file in ~/.bitcoin
datadir.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
index 1214b548cf..8fc708be6b 100644
--- a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
+++ b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ std::string HelpMessageCli()
     std::string strUsage;
     strUsage += HelpMessageGroup(_("Options:"));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-?", _("This help message"));
-    strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-conf=<file>", strprintf(_("Specify configuration file (default: %s)"), BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME));
+    strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-conf=<file>", strprintf(_("Specify configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location. (default: %s)"), BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-datadir=<dir>", _("Specify data directory"));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-getinfo", _("Get general information from the remote server. Note that unlike server-side RPC calls, the results of -getinfo is the result of multiple non-atomic requests. Some entries in the result may represent results from different states (e.g. wallet balance may be as of a different block from the chain state reported)"));
     AppendParamsHelpMessages(strUsage);