switch command check from help to version

this reduces excess logs

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/setuptools_scm/_run_cmd.py b/src/setuptools_scm/_run_cmd.py
index e40589f..b1e5f1a 100644
--- a/src/setuptools_scm/_run_cmd.py
+++ b/src/setuptools_scm/_run_cmd.py
@@ -170,7 +170,9 @@ def _unsafe_quote_for_display(item: _t.PathT) -> str:
     return text if all(c not in text for c in " {[:") else f'"{text}"'
 
 
-def has_command(name: str, args: Sequence[str] = ["help"], warn: bool = True) -> bool:
+def has_command(
+    name: str, args: Sequence[str] = ["version"], warn: bool = True
+) -> bool:
     try:
         p = run([name, *args], cwd=".", timeout=5)
     except OSError as e: