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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2015-11-06 16:30:46 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800
commitb1312bfe61c08684f7325f17858933017bae7f59 (patch)
tree919df7802716c7127b8b5e889177c2354f006ae8 /scripts
parentcc7ff0ef6eca3deeea4a424ca47a67c8450d5424 (diff)
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>
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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/get_maintainer.pl3
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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
}