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>
This commit is contained in:
Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-19 10:21:44 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 31e7bded60
commit dd3bf0f4a5
2 changed files with 18 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -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.