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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git version
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:31:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <432985A7.5070900@gmail.com> (raw)
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.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15 13:47 git version David Kågedal
2005-09-15 14:31 ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2005-09-15 15:22   ` David Kågedal
2005-09-15 16:02     ` A Large Angry SCM

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