From 9557afbaa7e7f94421628e1a8602d32432ea9a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gene-redpanda <123959009+gene-redpanda@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 12:40:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] adds rpk version to cobra's Version field

Setting this field enables use of --version without clobbering version or doing other weird stuff.
---
 src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/root.go | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/root.go b/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/root.go
index 95f11868eda3f..71318bb268d13 100644
--- a/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/root.go
+++ b/src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/root.go
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ func Execute() {
 		return opts, cobra.ShellCompDirectiveNoSpace
 	})
 
+	root.Version = version.Pretty()
 	root.AddCommand(
 		acl.NewCommand(fs, p),
 		cloud.NewCommand(fs, osExec),