Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] get_maintainer: add --no-foo options to --help

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 11:28 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> 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.
[]
> v1 -> v2:
>   * don't clutter with --[no]foo bracketing; just include this note up front;
>     suggested by Joe
[]
> diff --git 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

Hey Brian.

Thanks for the series.

It all seems sensible except this should be below the
options instead of above it.  I would put it last in
the "Notes: " block just above the EOT marker.

I would have broken the lines like:

Most options have both positive and negative forms.
The negative forms for --<foo> are --no<foo> and --no-<foo>.

So, if you could please respin and resend the series with
that change, I'll ack it.

cheers, Joe
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