[PATCH 2/2] documentation: add documentation for 'git version'
From: Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-13 11:07:07
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20A=C3=9Fhauer?= <redacted> 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. Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <redacted> --- Documentation/git-version.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-version.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/git-version.txt b/Documentation/git-version.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/git-version.txt@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +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. + +If the option `--build-options` is given, information about how git was built is +printed on the standard output in addition to the version number. + +Note that `git --version` is identical to `git version` because the +former is internally converted into the latter. + +OPTIONS +------- +--build-options:: + Prints out additional information about how git was built for diagnostic + purposes. + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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