- Jean Delvare:

  + Add a --version option that prints the program version.
  + patch_args: Fix comments parsing in series files.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bin/quilt.in b/bin/quilt.in
index 53b08f2..38be02d 100644
--- a/bin/quilt.in
+++ b/bin/quilt.in
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ usage()
 {
 
 	echo $"Usage: quilt [--trace[=verbose]] [--quiltrc=XX] command [-h] ..."
+	echo $"       quilt --version"
 
 	echo $"Commands are:"
 	quilt_commands \
@@ -36,7 +37,12 @@ Common options to all commands:
 --quiltrc file
 	Use the specified configuration file instead of ~/.quiltrc (or
 	/etc/quilt.quiltrc if ~/.quiltrc does not exist).  See the pdf
-	documentation for details about its possible contents."
+	documentation for details about its possible contents.
+
+Special options:
+
+--version
+	Print the version number and exit immediately."
 	exit 1
 }
 
@@ -52,6 +58,12 @@ quilt_commands()
 	done
 }
 
+if [ $# -eq 1 -a "$1" == "--version" ]
+then
+	echo '@VERSION@'
+	exit
+fi
+
 BASH_OPTS=
 while [ $# -ne 0 ]
 do