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authorPierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>2007-11-19 10:21:44 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-11-22 22:11:28 -0800
commitdd3bf0f4a5bab17011e94bfeb808ee64dd2ad040 (patch)
tree0d0602508bf287ffd733b685f5bed6750a057fe3 /parse-options.h
parent31e7bded608416e3116f9c691a4d4314f10640b6 (diff)
downloadgit-dd3bf0f4a5bab17011e94bfeb808ee64dd2ad040.tar.gz
parse-options: Allow to hide options from the default usage.
This is useful for backward-compatibility aliases, or very advanced command line switches introduced for internal git usages and have no real use for a user. parse-options still shows them if the user asks for --help-all. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/parse-options.h b/parse-options.h
index a8760ac4b2..102ac31fb7 100644
--- a/parse-options.h
+++ b/parse-options.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ enum parse_opt_option_flags {
PARSE_OPT_OPTARG = 1,
PARSE_OPT_NOARG = 2,
PARSE_OPT_NONEG = 4,
+ PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN = 8,
};
struct option;
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ typedef int parse_opt_cb(const struct option *, const char *arg, int unset);
* PARSE_OPT_OPTARG: says that the argument is optionnal (not for BOOLEANs)
* PARSE_OPT_NOARG: says that this option takes no argument, for CALLBACKs
* PARSE_OPT_NONEG: says that this option cannot be negated
+ * PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN this option is skipped in the default usage, showed in
+ * the long one.
*
* `callback`::
* pointer to the callback to use for OPTION_CALLBACK.