--whatelse is a better name than --describe-other-params

The use case is basically the user having forgotten, so --help would be
best, but it would be quite hard to include this in --help, since it may
even have to spin up an external special remote program.

I also considered --umm but typoed it the first time I tried it as
--uum, and while memorable, it's too cutesy. --whatelse is good because
it explicitly asks, what other params, besides the ones I've given?
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> [[done]] as eg `git annex initremote type=rsync --describe-other-params`.
> [[done]] as eg `git annex initremote type=rsync --whatelse`.
>
> External special remotes that implement LISTCONFIGS can also be queried:
>
> git annex inittype type=external externaltype=foo --describe-other-params
> git annex inittype type=external externaltype=foo --whatelse