On 04/02, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This is completely offtopic tangent, but I wonder how hidden-bool or
> hidden options[] element in general interacts with the recent
> addition of helping command line completion. Are we already doing
> the right thing?
I had a quick look at this, and it looks like we're doing the right
thing here. The following snipped from the 'show_gitcomp' function in
parse-options.c:
> for (; opts->type != OPTION_END; opts++) {
> const char *suffix = "";
>
> if (!opts->long_name)
> continue;
> if (opts->flags & (PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN | PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE))
> continue;
So if the PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN flag is given, we skip printing the option,
which seems like the right thing to do.
