From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756501AbbKDT2w (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:28:52 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:36349 "EHLO mail-pa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756464AbbKDT2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:28:50 -0500 From: Brian Norris To: Cc: Brian Norris , Andrew Morton , Joe Perches Subject: [PATCH v2 3/4] get_maintainer: add --no-foo options to --help Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:28:21 -0800 Message-Id: <1446665302-102908-3-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.6.0.rc2.230.g3dd15c0 In-Reply-To: <1446665302-102908-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> References: <1446665302-102908-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Joe Perches --- v1 -> v2: * don't clutter with --[no]foo bracketing; just include this note up front; suggested by Joe v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/19/441 scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 6c307276f3d6..13115eab8992 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -770,6 +770,9 @@ usage: $P [options] patchfile $P [options] -f file|directory version: $V +Most options have both positive and negative forms. The negative form of --foo +is --nofoo. + MAINTAINER field selection options: --email => print email address(es) if any --git => include recent git \*-by: signers -- 2.6.0.rc2.230.g3dd15c0