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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git version
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:02:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43299B1E.1050407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u5tslw6qrtu.fsf@lysator.liu.se>

David Kågedal wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>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.
> 
> You mean, like, "cvs version"?
> 
> Actually, cvs has both, with different semantics.

More along the lines of *ALL* the GNU utilities.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 16:02 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
2005-09-15 15:22   ` David Kågedal
2005-09-15 16:02     ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]

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