From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:31:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git version
Message-ID: <432985A7.5070900@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <u5tzmqeqw6z.fsf@lysator.liu.se>

David Kågedal wrote:
> Why is "git --version" called so, and not "git version"?  It works
> just like any other command, except that it is implemented internally
> in the git script.
> 
> The "git" command takes a subcommand that does some action or simply
> prints some informational output.  The "version" subcommand fits
> nicely into that, and I don't see any need to prepend "--" to it.
> 

Consistency with other (non Git) commands was why I suggested the 
"--version" form when the discussion happened.