SourceRevisionId being removed since Version 3.0 is not an improvement

[Juff-Ma]

While it is debateable if this should be default behaviour or not, completely removing the option to include the build id is a bad thing.

My personal build ids are generated using MinVer and do not only include the commit hash but also build information. While it is fine that this info isn't shown in the normal help screen, when the user uses --version/-v it is very much useful information. Since when the user wants to to display it, then it shouldn't be intentionally hidden.

I think that hiding information which developers actively chose to include in their version info is not an improvement but rather a regression. At least that's how I thought of it while searching for the culprit.

Of course I know that version 3 is a new major and so it's 100% in your right to make such changes but it would be nice to at least have a switch for enabling/disabling this behaviour.

[calacayir]

There are 2 places where the version is displayed. First is the help output which looked like

MyApp v2.0.0+b0f34d51fccc69fd334253924abd8d6853fad7aa
Copyright © 2023-2025 DotMake

A root cli command

Usage:
  TestApp <argument-1> [options]

So I was concerned about it and thought it looked ugly for the user so now it looks like this:

MyApp v2.0.0
Copyright © 2023-2025 DotMake

A root cli command

Usage:
  TestApp <argument-1> [options]

Second place is when you use --version option.

While it is fine that this info isn't shown in the normal help screen, when the user uses --version/-v it is very much useful information. Since when the user wants to to display it, then it shouldn't be intentionally hidden.

Your case sounds right. We should better show the full version when it's explicitly requested.

So are you okay if we show short version in first place and long version in second place?
Or do you think we should have a switch even for showing long version in first place?

[Juff-Ma]

While I think having a switch for it would be nice (in both places if possible, e.g. to always enable it on debug-builds), the only thing I'm really concerned with is the second place.

Since this information is mostly a concern for the user if they're actually searching for it, at which point they'd probably run --version anyway.