From 7da0f953287e1d496ae9605a1e8c4d0af64b6481 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacob Komissar <18540209+jirassimok@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 13:21:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add sway's variant field to VersionReply

This allows telling apart Sway versions and i3 versions.
---
 i3ipc/replies.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/i3ipc/replies.py b/i3ipc/replies.py
index 8a2fa6a..12e0e2a 100644
--- a/i3ipc/replies.py
+++ b/i3ipc/replies.py
@@ -244,6 +244,9 @@ class VersionReply(_BaseReply):
     :vartype human_readable: str
     :ivar loaded_config_file_name: The current config path.
     :vartype loaded_config_file_name: str
+    :ivar variant: (sway only) The string "sway," to disambiguate Sway and i3
+        versions.
+    :vartype variant: str from Sway, or :class:`None` from i3
     :ivar ipc_data: The raw data from the i3 ipc.
     :vartype ipc_data: dict
     """
@@ -253,6 +256,7 @@ class VersionReply(_BaseReply):
         ('patch', int),
         ('human_readable', str),
         ('loaded_config_file_name', str),
+        ('variant', str),
     ]