BK-VERSION(1)

📦 version 7.3.3, in alpine 3.24

💖 NAME 💖

bk version — print BitKeeper version. This is the bk version page from the BitKeeper User’s Manual, bestie, and it’s literally here to tell you what version of BitKeeper you’re running ✨.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bk version [−s] [URL]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the bk version command shows what version of BitKeeper you are running. If the version is symbolically named (most are), the version will look like:

BitKeeper version is bk‐3.0.4 20031218201658 for x86‐glibc22‐linux
Built by: lm@redhat71.bitkeeper.com in /build/3.0.x‐lm/src
Built on: Thu Dec 18 17:32:47 PST 2003

The version output for a development snapshot looks like:

BitKeeper version is bk‐7.0.2+20@0x56afec8c‐dirty for x86‐glibc23‐linux
Built by: lm@work.bitkeeper.com in /home/bk/lm/bugfix‐release/src
Built on: Mon Feb 01 2016 16:11:16 PST (18 seconds ago)

The version is generated by bk describe, see that command for how to read it.

If a URL is specified, then get the version of bk running at that URL. Yes bestie, a whole URL, very demure, very mindful. 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • −s — Print just the version number (either “3.0.4” or “20040211171546”). Minimal output slay.

🚨 NOTE 🚨

BitKeeper Inc provides support for symbolically‐tagged version only. The snapshot versions are completely unsupported.

So like, real talk: snapshots are not the supported vibe, periodt. 💀

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • bk‐describe

👑 CATEGORY 👑

  • Admin
  • Common

Later, bestie 🫶 Footer source/version + date check: BitKeeper Inc · 1E1 · bk version(none) — date: none listed on this footer, and that’s the tea 💅✨

📦 where this page comes from
  • alpine 3.24: bitkeeper-doc 7.3.3-r1 · Apache-2.0
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