start option --version

[skyper]

I thought it had been implemanted but maybe I am wrong.

I need a start option to just get the version of JOSM and exit. Yes, I could do that with

josm --help

and filter but

--version

is very common.

How do you automatically update josm ?

Thanks skyper

[skyper]

I wrote a script to automatically update josm.

Anyway I do not need this option anymore as it is possible to get the version number from .jar file without running java:

Use

unzip -c josm-latest.jar REVISION|grep "Last Changed Rev"

for release version

[bastiK]

In [4259/josm]:

see #5906 - start option --version

[anonymous]

I save the version in the name of the jar file, see ​https://github.com/cobra/josm-update-script