diff --git a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
index 096860210..b3cc179fe 100644
--- a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
+++ b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
@@ -280,17 +280,18 @@ control specific occasions when output is generated. This list may contain:
     sync       Feedback about sync
     filter     Shows the filter used in the command
     unwait     Notification when a task leaves the 'waiting' state
+    override   Notification when configuration options are overriden
     recur      Notification when a new recurring task instance is created
 
-"affected", "new-id", "new-uuid" "project" and "unwait" imply "footnote".
+"affected", "new-id", "new-uuid", "project", "override" and "unwait" imply "footnote".
 
 Note that the "1" setting is equivalent to all the tokens being specified,
 and the "nothing" setting is equivalent to none of the tokens being specified.
 
 Here are the shortcut equivalents:
 
-    verbose=1
-    verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter,unwait
+    verbose=on
+    verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter,unwait,override
 
     verbose=0
     verbose=blank,label,new-id,edit
diff --git a/src/CLI2.cpp b/src/CLI2.cpp
index 516bb9504..0e68b38dc 100644
--- a/src/CLI2.cpp
+++ b/src/CLI2.cpp
@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ void CLI2::applyOverrides (int argc, const char** argv)
         std::string name  = raw.substr (3, sep - 3);
         std::string value = raw.substr (sep + 1);
         context.config.set (name, value);
-        context.footnote (format (STRING_PARSER_OVERRIDE_RC, name, value));
+
+        if (context.verbose("override"))
+          context.footnote (format (STRING_PARSER_OVERRIDE_RC, name, value));
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/Context.cpp b/src/Context.cpp
index fd59ae1bc..3c12187bf 100644
--- a/src/Context.cpp
+++ b/src/Context.cpp
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ std::string configurationDefaults =
   "\n"
   "# Miscellaneous\n"
   "#                                              # Comma-separated list.  May contain any subset of:\n"
-  "verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,new-uuid,affected,edit,special,project,sync,unwait,recur\n"
+  "verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,new-uuid,affected,edit,special,project,sync,unwait,override,recur\n"
   "confirmation=1                                 # Confirmation on delete, big changes\n"
   "recurrence=1                                   # Enable recurrence\n"
   "recurrence.confirmation=prompt                 # Confirmation for propagating changes among recurring tasks (yes/no/prompt)\n"
@@ -949,6 +949,7 @@ bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
           v != "sync"     &&  //
           v != "filter"   &&  //
           v != "unwait"   &&  //
+          v != "override" &&  //
           v != "recur")       //
       {
         // This list emulates rc.verbose=off in version 1.9.4.
@@ -960,7 +961,7 @@ bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
     if (! verbosity.count ("footnote"))
     {
       // TODO: Some of these may not use footnotes yet.  They should.
-      for (auto flag : {"affected", "new-id", "new-uuid", "project", "unwait", "recur"})
+      for (auto flag : {"affected", "new-id", "new-uuid", "project", "unwait", "override", "recur"})
       {
         if (verbosity.count (flag))
         {