#18752 [feature] Ability to verify pants installation before initalizing a repo Issue created by joe733 Is your feature request related to a problem?

please read the heading...

Currently after installing pants launcher I'm unable to run any commands unless I initialize the current repository. Describe the solution you'd like Provide any commands like

pants help

or

pants version

with

exit 0

so as to verify that installation is successful. We should be able to run it right after the following command

$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL <https://static.pantsbuild.org/setup/get-pants.sh>

is complete, but before initializing a directory as pants repository. Describe alternatives you've considered Can

scie-pants

help? * * *

Additional context

Working on providing pants as an `asdf-plugin`.

pantsbuild/pants