What is your suggestion?

I'm suggesting we add acoder version subcommand and remove the shorthand-v flag. This is similar to howgit andgh behave.

Docker implementsdocker version as extended version output, whereas--version is short.

An option is to rename-v to-V which is used in some tools, but not in the aforementioned ones.

Why do you want this feature?

I think it would be nice to reserve-v for getting more verbose output from the CLI/server.

Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?

No.

Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?

Yes.