Each line of options has this format:
------------
-<opt_spec><arg_spec>? SP+ help LF
+<opt_spec><flags>* SP+ help LF
------------
`<opt_spec>`::
is necessary. `h,help`, `dry-run` and `f` are all three correct
`<opt_spec>`.
-`<arg_spec>`::
- an `<arg_spec>` tells the option parser if the option has an argument
- (`=`), an optional one (`?` though its use is discouraged) or none
- (no `<arg_spec>` in that case).
+`<flags>`::
+ `<flags>` are of `*`, `=`, `?` or `!`.
+ * Use `=` if the option takes an argument.
+
+ * Use `?` to mean that the option is optional (though its use is discouraged).
+
+ * Use `*` to mean that this option should not be listed in the usage
+ generated for the `-h` argument. It's shown for `--help-all` as
+ documented in linkgit:gitcli[5].
+
+ * Use `!` to not make the corresponding negated long option available.
The remainder of the line, after stripping the spaces, is used
as the help associated to the option.
o->type = OPTION_CALLBACK;
o->help = xstrdup(skipspaces(s));
o->value = &parsed;
+ o->flags = PARSE_OPT_NOARG;
o->callback = &parseopt_dump;
- switch (s[-1]) {
- case '=':
- s--;
- break;
- case '?':
- o->flags = PARSE_OPT_OPTARG;
- s--;
- break;
- default:
- o->flags = PARSE_OPT_NOARG;
- break;
+ while (s > sb.buf && strchr("*=?!", s[-1])) {
+ switch (*--s) {
+ case '=':
+ o->flags &= ~PARSE_OPT_NOARG;
+ break;
+ case '?':
+ o->flags &= ~PARSE_OPT_NOARG;
+ o->flags |= PARSE_OPT_OPTARG;
+ break;
+ case '!':
+ o->flags |= PARSE_OPT_NONEG;
+ break;
+ case '*':
+ o->flags |= PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN;
+ break;
+ }
}
if (s - sb.buf == 1) /* short option only */