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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 man-
	    agement.

     --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.

     --offline
	    Do not attempt to download resources (packages, repository metadata,
	    etc), instead taking them from the local fetch  cache  if  available
	    and failing otherwise.

     --no-fetch-cache
	    Disable  local  caching  of download resources (packages, repository
	    metadata, etc).

     --fetch-cache mode
	    Comma-separated list of local fetch cache modes.

     --fetch-cache-session id
	    The local fetch cache session.

     --sqlite-synchronous mode
	    Filesystem synchronization mode for the project SQLite database.

     --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
     Send bug reports to the users@build2.org mailing list.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (c) 2014-2026 the build2 authors.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
     the terms of the MIT License.

bdep 0.18.0			   April 2026			    bdep-help(1)
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