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The full release notes (https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.0/Documentation/RelNot...) offer this highlight:

"git -v" and "git -h" are now understood as "git --version" and "git --help".

I wonder how many bikes were shed before that implementation could happen.

If you are curious, then you can find the discussion starting at v2 here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220330190956.21447-1-garrit@sl...

This is a first time contributor getting a headlining feature at the top of the release notes!

Ah yes, thanks for linking that. So there was a discussion about a conflict with `--verbose` at least; whether to go for the upper case `-V` or completely drop the version flag from the patch. But then:

"I do not care too deeply, and it is the most time efficient to just take the last patch as-is."

Good lord, what a pragmatic maintainer! Burn them at the stakes!

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