Add a section in the DeveloperGuide for the naming convention of command line...

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@@ -10,3 +10,12 @@ MLIR follows the [LLVM style](https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html) guide
 except:
 
 *   Adopts [camelBack](https://llvm.org/docs/Proposals/VariableNames.html);
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+## Pass name and other command line options
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+To avoid collision between options provided by different dialects, the naming
+convention is to prepend the dialect name to every dialect-specific passes and
+options in general. Also options that are specific to a pass should also be
+prefixed with the pass name. For example, the affine dialect is providing a
+loop tiling pass that will be registered on the command line as "-affine-tile",
+and the tile size option can be set with "-affine-tile-size".