commander.js : Customize Version Argument for `commander.js` ⚡️

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Customize Version Argument for commander.js

You can support for -v instead of -V to get the --version to be consistent with Node and npm.

It's just a customization:

.version('1.0.0', '-v, --version')

If the flags aren't specified, they just default to -V, --version.

cli.js

const commander = require( 'commander' );

const packageJson = require( './package.json' );

const program = new commander.Command( packageJson.name )
	.version( packageJson.version, '-v, --version' )
	.parse( process.argv );

I've since learned that commander.js was not allowing the name of the long option to be changed (e.g., --revision). I've submitted a patch to support this.

@mojavelinux why would you like to change that? But I can see I never tested that.