Print version with -v too

[kastiglione]

Would it be reasonable to support -v in addition to --version?

[yonaskolb]

It would indeed be reasonable @kastiglione :)
It might clash with a future --verbose flag though. And if Commander already makes the decision to restrict to --version perhaps that's a good default. What do you think? Are you used to using -v?

[kastiglione]

Good points. Hopefully Commander wouldn't force that, but I see the concern there.

We have a version of XcodeGen that I want to upgrade to use the latest upstream release. Our XcodeGen has a -v flag (but not --version), and that flag is used by other tools to tell whether the local copy is out of date and needs an update. I could work around the -v/--version discrepancy in other ways, but if XcodeGen officially supports -v then that makes it easier.

Personally, I never like it when I run -v on some command and find out it does nothing and then try --version and see that it works. I can see if -v had some other meaning, but having no meaning seems unfortunate. For verbose, that could be -V, and since CAPS usually means loud, that could be suitable for verbose. I could try to add -v to Commander, as another approach.

Do you think XcodeGen is going to have a verbose mode? It already seems verbose/detailed as a default.

[yonaskolb]

Some good counter points :)

[kastiglione]

Thanks!

[kastiglione]

What do you think, should I open a pull request in Commander to see if they'll make -v an official alias for --version?

[yonaskolb]

Yeah, I think it's worth a PR. It should probably be done in a way in that if anyone manually adds a -v flag it will use that instead, and only print version as a fallback