From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org, szeder@ira.uka.de,
felipe.contreras@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: Add support for dumping out long options
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:59:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411125921.GC3161@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334140165-24958-2-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com>
Stephen Boyd wrote:
> The bash completion script wants to know what the long options are for a
> certain command at runtime. Add a magical long option that nobody could
> possibly ever use (--dump-raw-long-options) to get this information.
Neat. Probably should be documented:
diff --git i/Documentation/gitcli.txt w/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index f734f97b..0de074ec 100644
--- i/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ w/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
are deprecated, and such options are hidden from the default usage. This
option gives the full list of options.
+--dump-raw-long-options::
+ prints a space-separated list of supported options, including
+ negated `--no-<foo>` forms. Long options taking an argument are
+ printed with a trailing equal sign, as in "`--depth=`".
+
Negating options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 10:29 [PATCH 0/2] Dynamic long options for bash completion Stephen Boyd
2012-04-11 10:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: Add support for dumping out long options Stephen Boyd
2012-04-11 10:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-12 7:42 ` Stephen Boyd
2012-04-11 12:59 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-04-12 7:02 ` Stephen Boyd
2012-04-11 14:06 ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-04-12 7:12 ` Stephen Boyd
2012-04-15 12:49 ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-04-15 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-11 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] completion: Use parse-options raw output for simple " Stephen Boyd
2012-04-11 13:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-11 13:56 ` SZEDER Gábor
2012-04-17 10:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
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