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From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: Add support for dumping out long options
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:02:28 -0700
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On 04/11/2012 05:59 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks. Squashed in.