Not using --[no-]foo in the subject because roundup treats square
brackets specially.

>From the mailing list:

twb> For example, "darcs pull --help" would have the following.  I
twb> already have an (ugly) patch to sort the options.  Perhaps we
twb> should also simplify things by compressing the --foo and --no-foo
twb> or --dont-foo options, e.g. "--[no-]foo".  Incidentally, why do
twb> we have both --no and --dont prefixes?!

ben> Yes, I think we should compress negated options to --[no-]foo and
ben> -- [dont-]foo. Hopefully, this will make the options list
ben> visually easier to read. The descriptions should probably be all
ben> for the positive version of these options.

I agree this sounds like an improvement.

Not to be confused with issue1457.  In this ticket, we leave the options
exactly as they are and just compress the help output.

I vote we wont-fix this and just implement issue1457 instead :-)
(feel free to shout me down!)