From b1312bfe61c08684f7325f17858933017bae7f59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:30:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 6c307276f3d6d..145f1bf6472e0 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
}
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