bzr version command -- deprecate?

[Erik Bågfors]

2006/2/14, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net>:
> Matthew Hannigan <mlh at zip.com.au> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> I vote for drop for both. There is no need to keep functionality that
> has changed in development version.
>
> It's traditional to ask -h or --help, and not to call command "help".

I disagree,
I just tried the following
svn help
cvs help
tla help
baz help
darcs help
hg help

They all worked.  This is reason enough that "bzr help" should work.

/Erik