From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 00:30:46 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: get_maintainer: add --no-foo options to --help
X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.10.0-12.13~13769^2~47
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b1312bfe61c08684f7325f17858933017bae7f59;p=mirror_ubuntu-hirsute-kernel.git

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>
---

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
 }