On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Martin Sebor wrote:

> IMO, printing the aliased option's help text makes using the output
> easier for users who find the undocumented option first, in that
> they don't then have to go look for the one that does have
> documentation, so I left that part in place.  If you or someone
> feels strongly that it shouldn't be there I'll remove it.

Well, I think it might also encourage people to use the aliases, when for 
the most part we'd rather people used the canonical names (and so made it 
easier e.g. to search for other uses of the same option).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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