From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20A=C3=9Fhauer?= <mha1993@xxxxxxx> While 'git version' is probably the least complex git command, it is a non-experimental user-facing builtin command. As such it should have a help page. Both `git help` and `git version` can be called as options (`--help`/`--version`) that internally get converted to the corresponding command. Add a small paragraph to Documentation/git.txt describing how these two options interact with each other and link to this help page for the sub-options that `--version` can take. Well, currently there is only one sub-option, but that could potentially increase in future versions of Git. Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-version.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/git.txt | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-version.txt diff --git a/Documentation/git-version.txt b/Documentation/git-version.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..80fa7754a6d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-version.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +git-version(1) +============== + +NAME +---- +git-version - Display version information about Git + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git version' [--build-options] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +With no options given, the version of 'git' is printed on the standard output. + +Note that `git --version` is identical to `git version` because the +former is internally converted into the latter. + +OPTIONS +------- +--build-options:: + Include additional information about how git was built for diagnostic + purposes. + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 6dd241ef838..95fe6f31b4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ OPTIONS ------- --version:: Prints the Git suite version that the 'git' program came from. ++ +This option is internaly converted to `git version ...` and accepts +the same options as the linkgit:git-version[1] command. If `--help` is +also given, it takes precedence over `--version`. --help:: Prints the synopsis and a list of the most commonly used -- gitgitgadget
