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get_maintainer: add --no-foo options to --help

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.

Rather than clutter the whole help text with bracketed '--[no]foo', let's
just mention the general rule, a la 'man gcc'.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Brian Norris 9 years ago
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@@ -845,6 +845,9 @@ Notes:
       Entries in this file can be any command line argument.
       Entries in this file can be any command line argument.
       This file is prepended to any additional command line arguments.
       This file is prepended to any additional command line arguments.
       Multiple lines and # comments are allowed.
       Multiple lines and # comments are allowed.
+  Most options have both positive and negative forms.
+      The negative forms for --<foo> are --no<foo> and --no-<foo>.
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