From d87acc2d1bd11255e7b883fb561a45fb82ccd6d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Buchman <ethan@coinculture.info>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:01:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] cmd: don't load config for version command. closes #620

---
 cmd/tendermint/commands/root.go | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmd/tendermint/commands/root.go b/cmd/tendermint/commands/root.go
index a8def87da..6cef5daa9 100644
--- a/cmd/tendermint/commands/root.go
+++ b/cmd/tendermint/commands/root.go
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ var RootCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "tendermint",
 	Short: "Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go",
 	PersistentPreRunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) (err error) {
+		if cmd.Name() == versionCmd.Name() {
+			return nil
+		}
 		config, err = ParseConfig()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err