From ea8822e91016567aed39f1b1bcc86636dbd495d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leander Schulten <Leander.Schulten@rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 23:19:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [vcpkg] allow --version to check the version

---
 src/vcpkg/vcpkgcmdarguments.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/vcpkg/vcpkgcmdarguments.cpp b/src/vcpkg/vcpkgcmdarguments.cpp
index b704f1ab4f..d3b40bfcd0 100644
--- a/src/vcpkg/vcpkgcmdarguments.cpp
+++ b/src/vcpkg/vcpkgcmdarguments.cpp
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ namespace vcpkg
         VcpkgCmdArguments args;
         std::vector<std::string> feature_flags;
 
+        if (arg_first != arg_last && arg_first + 1 == arg_last && *arg_first == "--version")
+        {
+            args.command = "version";
+            return args;
+        }
+
         for (auto it = arg_first; it != arg_last; ++it)
         {
             std::string basic_arg = *it;