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 flags.MarkHidden("secretFlag")
 ```
 
+## Supporting Go flags when using pflag
+In order to support flags defined using Go's `flag` package, they must be added to the `pflag` flagset. This is usually necessary
+to support flags defined by third-party dependencies (e.g. `golang/glog`).
+
+**Example**: You want to add the Go flags to the `CommandLine` flagset
+```go
+import (
+	goflag "flag"
+	flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"
+)
+
+var ip *int = flag.Int("flagname", 1234, "help message for flagname")
+
+func main() {
+	flag.CommandLine.AddGoFlagSet(goflag.CommandLine)
+	flag.Parse()
+}
+```
+
 ## More info
 
 You can see the full reference documentation of the pflag package