From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:45:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Remove --allow-empty from the git-commit synopsis
Message-ID: <j2s780e0a6b1004071245jaaaf8d20r71720749c29227b8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1270668498-30495-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As for Jeff's suggestion of omitting options from the `--help' output:
> I couldn't find a way to do that using parse-options.[ch]. It's also
> customary for `--help' to include the full usage examples regardless
> of how long they get (just look at wget, ls etc.). The SYNOPSIS
> sections in manual pages by comparison usually aim for brevity.
>

You can hide options from the -h output (not --help-all) by using the
PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN flag.