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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-10-12 23:51:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-10-12 23:51:34 +0300 |
| commit | 70fb2c98868fb6903970c5b3b6983d06eb0fcca0 (patch) | |
| tree | 18604b4e4897cfd1be8bafedf57f1cb2574fca78 /Documentation | |
| parent | b306aefded95970422de16b0a721e44f36d86ce4 (diff) | |
| parent | b6d8887d3d607e0da971218f20428c0635c6362c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'ma/doc-git-version' into maint
Doc update.
* ma/doc-git-version:
documentation: add documentation for 'git version'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-version.txt | 28 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-version.txt b/Documentation/git-version.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..80fa7754a6 --- /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 6dd241ef83..95fe6f31b4 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 |