GIT-VERSION(1)

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🦋 GIT-VERSION(1) — the git manual, but make it a group chat

ok so bestie, welcome to GIT-VERSION(1), which lives in the Git Manual — yes that Git, the one you keep typing at 2am 💅. This page is literally just "how do I ask git what version it is," and honestly? It ate.

✨ NAME ✨

git-version — displays version information about Git. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

git version [--build-options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so if you give it no options at all — nothing, zero, empty hands — the version of git gets printed on the standard output. slay. standard output. we stay on stdout, we don't cause a scene 🌸

and listen, because this is the part people always ask about: git --version is identical to git version. not "similar," not "kind of the same vibe" — identical. because internally, git --version gets converted into git version. it's giving "same girl, different entrance." no cap 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --build-options — this one's for when you want the tea ☕ about how git was built, extra info included, straight up for diagnostic purposes. like a little backstage tour of your git install.

the libraries used to implement the SHA-1 and SHA-256 algorithms get displayed in the form SHA-1: <option> and SHA-256: <option>. cute, tidy, iconic.

⚠️ okay important warning time, bestie, do not scroll past this: the SHA-1 options SHA1_APPLE, SHA1_OPENSSL, and SHA1_BLK do not use a collision detection algorithm, and because of that they may be vulnerable to known SHA-1 collision attacks. that's a real security thing, not a vibe. be careful 🔥

when a faster SHA-1 implementation without collision detection is used for only non-cryptographic purposes, the algorithm gets displayed in the form non-collision-detecting-SHA-1: <option> — so git is basically labeling it for you. very thoughtful of her, honestly 👑

🧚 GIT 🧚

part of the git(1) suite. she's not alone, she's got a whole family 💜

kisses, bestie 💖 — this page came to you from Git 2.56.0, dated 2026-09-27, and it's the GIT-VERSION(1) page of the Git Manual. go check your version, i'll be right here 🦋

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