I'm not marking this as Documentation type, as the change should be done in the source file.
The manual page says that -o option will write output to FILE. It does not mention the possibility of saving to a different folder (if that name exists), as explained in Usage manual, chapter 1.2.
Here's the line to be changed:
$ git grep 'write output to FILE' lily/
lily/main.cc:183: {_i ("FILE"), "output", 'o', _i ("write output to FILE (suffix will be added)")},
Mention FILE or FOLDER arg to -o command-line option.
As Federico explained in issue #5288, this is mentioned
in the Usage manual, but not in the man page/command-line help.
http://codereview.appspot.com/343510043
Patch on countdown for Feb 25th.
Patch counted down - please push.
Pushed as https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/commit/?id=3aeb41c27fa9db60eb6faa7c0c8532614697d06c
Please verify!