Why the "--export-secret-key" switch is not listed in help screen?

[John Clizbe]

Mika Suomalainen wrote:
> 06.05.2012 21:15, Peter Lebbing kirjoitti:
>> It does say in the "gpg --help" output:
> 
>>> (See the man page for a complete listing of all commands and
>>> options)
> 
>> There are many more options and also commands in the full man(ual)
>> page. I suppose it was thought that exporting a private key was
>> such a relatively "rarely used" command it did not need to be among
>> the most used commands listed by "--help". Or it was simply an
>> oversight :).
> 
>> Peter.
> 
> 
> It shouldn't be rarely used. The first thing to do after creating a
> key should be backing it up somewhere just in case something happens
> someday in my opinion.

I've heard rumor that Werner and Co. gratefully welcome patch submissions,
especially so, for documentation issues, IMNSHO

I've even had some code patches accepted. :-)

Did you mean to attach a patch correcting this, or did it get stripped off by
some poorly behaved MTA?

-John

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