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| author | Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> | 2013-04-18 09:46:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-18 09:30:28 -0700 |
| commit | 8a09e6c5f9010ac7159ef39a03b9a36bf233eaca (patch) | |
| tree | 67ca0152b1d2e6c62c235ad4bb0d6cbfc4b4bdeb | |
| parent | 61929404df24325b8bebedbd70d55d21142de9dd (diff) | |
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api-parse-options.txt: document "no-" for non-boolean options
Document that the "no-" prefix can also be used for non-boolean
options.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 306238940..facc8c8c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The parse-options API allows: * Boolean long options can be 'negated' (or 'unset') by prepending `no-`, e.g. `--no-abbrev` instead of `--abbrev`. Conversely, options that begin with `no-` can be 'negated' by removing it. + Other long options can be unset (e.g., set string to NULL, set + integer to 0) by prepending `no-`. * Options and non-option arguments can clearly be separated using the `--` option, e.g. `-a -b --option -- --this-is-a-file` indicates that |