From 625140337857bef6a35d61735c5e35b59b5d12ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hniksic <devnull@localhost>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:18:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Doc fix.

---
 src/main.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index c91846c9..935d16d7 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -326,9 +326,11 @@ init_switches (void)
 	    *p++ = ':';
 	  break;
 	case OPT_BOOLEAN:
-	  /* Don't specify optional arguments for boolean short
-	     options.  They are evil because they prevent combining of
-	     short options.  */
+	  /* Specify an optional argument for long options, so that
+	     --option=off works the same as --no-option, for
+	     compatibility with pre-1.10 Wget.  However, don't specify
+	     optional arguments short-option booleans because they
+	     prevent combining of short options.  */
 	  longopt->has_arg = optional_argument;
 	  /* For Boolean options, add the "--no-FOO" variant, which is
 	     identical to "--foo", except it has opposite meaning and