[travis] Fail when documentation is outdated

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diff --git a/contrib/devtools/check-doc.py b/contrib/devtools/check-doc.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (c) 2014 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+'''
+This checks if all command line args are documented.
+Return value is 0 to indicate no error.
+
+Author: @MarcoFalke
+'''
+
+from subprocess import check_output
+import re
+
+FOLDER_GREP = 'src'
+FOLDER_TEST = 'src/test/'
+CMD_ROOT_DIR = '`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`/%s' % FOLDER_GREP
+CMD_GREP_ARGS = r"egrep -r -I '(map(Multi)?Args(\.count\(|\[)|Get(Bool)?Arg\()\"\-[^\"]+?\"' %s | grep -v '%s'" % (CMD_ROOT_DIR, FOLDER_TEST)
+CMD_GREP_DOCS = r"egrep -r -I 'HelpMessageOpt\(\"\-[^\"=]+?(=|\")' %s" % (CMD_ROOT_DIR)
+REGEX_ARG = re.compile(r'(?:map(?:Multi)?Args(?:\.count\(|\[)|Get(?:Bool)?Arg\()\"(\-[^\"]+?)\"')
+REGEX_DOC = re.compile(r'HelpMessageOpt\(\"(\-[^\"=]+?)(?:=|\")')
+# list unsupported, deprecated and duplicate args as they need no documentation
+SET_DOC_OPTIONAL = set(['-rpcssl', '-benchmark', '-h', '-help', '-socks', '-tor', '-debugnet'])
+
+def main():
+  used = check_output(CMD_GREP_ARGS, shell=True)
+  docd = check_output(CMD_GREP_DOCS, shell=True)
+
+  args_used = set(re.findall(REGEX_ARG,used))
+  args_docd = set(re.findall(REGEX_DOC,docd)).union(SET_DOC_OPTIONAL)
+  args_need_doc = args_used.difference(args_docd)
+  args_unknown = args_docd.difference(args_used)
+
+  print "Args used        : %s" % len(args_used)
+  print "Args documented  : %s" % len(args_docd)
+  print "Args undocumented: %s" % len(args_need_doc)
+  print args_need_doc
+  print "Args unknown     : %s" % len(args_unknown)
+  print args_unknown
+
+  exit(len(args_need_doc))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()