From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:59:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: Add support for dumping out long options
Message-ID: <20120411125921.GC3161@burratino>
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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~