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| author | Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> | 2015-11-06 16:30:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800 |
| commit | b1312bfe61c08684f7325f17858933017bae7f59 (patch) | |
| tree | 919df7802716c7127b8b5e889177c2354f006ae8 /scripts | |
| parent | cc7ff0ef6eca3deeea4a424ca47a67c8450d5424 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b1312bfe61c08684f7325f17858933017bae7f59.tar.gz lwn-b1312bfe61c08684f7325f17858933017bae7f59.zip | |
get_maintainer: add --no-foo options to --help
Many flag options are boolean and support both a positive and a negative
invocation from the command line. Some of these are even mentioned by
example (e.g., --nogit is mentioned as a default option), but they aren't
explicitly mentioned in the list of options. It happens that some of
these are pretty important, as they are default-on, and to turn them off,
you have to know about the --no-foo version.
Rather than clutter the whole help text with bracketed '--[no]foo', let's
just mention the general rule, a la 'man gcc'.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 6c307276f3d6..145f1bf6472e 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -845,6 +845,9 @@ Notes: Entries in this file can be any command line argument. This file is prepended to any additional command line arguments. Multiple lines and # comments are allowed. + Most options have both positive and negative forms. + The negative forms for --<foo> are --no<foo> and --no-<foo>. + EOT } |