bzr version command -- deprecate?

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:58:06PM +0100, Denys Duchier wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:
> 
> > I agree with the sentiment - but should it be deprecated (ie give a
> > warning), or just dropped?  
> 
> My vote would be to drop it.  

Yeah, drop it.  I realised after I sent it that I had deprecate
in the subject but drop in the body.


> I'd even like to drop "help" in favour of the
> global --help option, but that's probably too extreme.  I would just prefer that
> commands be about the user's stuff and not about bzr, but that's probably just
> me.

I think help is fine; it should be easy to get help.
It probably should be the sole self-referential command - at least,
I can't think of any others.

Matt