NAME

bdep-help – show help for a command or help topic

SYNOPSIS

bdep help [command | topic]

DESCRIPTION

Show the detailed help for command or help topic or a summary of available commands and topics if none was specified.

COMMON OPTIONS

The common options are summarized below with a more detailed description available in bdep-common-options(1).

-v
Print essential underlying commands being executed.
-V
Print all underlying commands being executed.
--quiet|-q
Run quietly, only printing error messages.
--verbose level
Set the diagnostics verbosity to level between 0 and 6.
--stdout-format format
Representation format to use for printing to stdout.
--jobs|-j num
Number of jobs to perform in parallel.
--progress
Display progress indicators for long-lasting operations, such as network transfers, building, etc.
--no-progress
Suppress progress indicators for long-lasting operations, such as network transfers, building, etc.
--diag-color
Use color in diagnostics.
--no-diag-color
Don't use color in diagnostics.
--bpkg path
The package manager program to be used for build configuration management.
--bpkg-option opt
Additional option to be passed to the package manager program.
--build path
The build program to be used to build packages.
--build-option opt
Additional option to be passed to the build program.
--curl path
The curl program to be used for network operations.
--curl-option opt
Additional option to be passed to the curl program.
--pager path
The pager program to be used to show long text.
--pager-option opt
Additional option to be passed to the pager program.
--options-file file
Read additional options from file.
--default-options dir
The directory to load additional default options files from.
--no-default-options
Don't load default options files.

DEFAULT OPTIONS FILES

See bdep-default-options-files(1) for an overview of the default options files. For the help command the following options files are searched for only in the predefined directories (home, system, etc) and, if found, loaded in the order listed:

bdep.options
bdep-help.options

BUGS

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