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