diff --git a/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown b/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown
index b6b42ae1..176fb745 100644
--- a/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown
+++ b/doc-src/content/CHANGELOG.markdown
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ COMPASS CHANGELOG
   for that property for the current project
 * Bug fix: In webkit, when the last gradient color stop was a percent less than 100%, the
   intermediate values were being scaled to that value.
+* You can now pass --no-line-comments to the Compass command line to disable line comments.
 
 0.10.6 (10/11/2010)
 -------------------
diff --git a/lib/compass/exec/project_options_parser.rb b/lib/compass/exec/project_options_parser.rb
index 571e200e..e7fbfc54 100644
--- a/lib/compass/exec/project_options_parser.rb
+++ b/lib/compass/exec/project_options_parser.rb
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ module Compass::Exec::ProjectOptionsParser
     opts.on('--relative-assets', :NONE, 'Make compass asset helpers generate relative urls to assets.') do
       self.options[:relative_assets] = true
     end
+
+    opts.on('--no-line-comments', :NONE, 'Disable line comments.') do
+      self.options[:line_comments] = false
+    end
   end
 
 end