Global options

Every buddy command accepts these options. Put them after the command name. buddy --help test-scripts prints the top-level help, not the help for test-scripts. buddy --silent test-scripts exits 2 without running the command.

Options

Option	Alias	Type	Default	Effect
--help	-h	boolean	off	Prints help for the command and exits 0. Checked before any other error.
--version	-v	boolean	off	Prints the version, for example 1.14.0, and exits 0.
--verbose	-V	boolean	off	Prints debug messages as well as normal output.
--silent	none	boolean	off	Prints nothing, error messages included. The exit code is unchanged.
--debug-cli	none	boolean	off	Prints the debug messages of clibuilder, the library buddy is built on.
--show-config	none	boolean	off	Prints where the config was loaded from and its contents, then exits 0 without running a command.

These options do not apply to the skill script commands. Those commands parse their own arguments.

--show-config

buddy --show-config

With a .repobuddy.json:

config: /home/me/my-app/.repobuddy.json
{
  "plugins": [
    "@repobuddy/typescript"
  ]
}

With a repobuddy key in package.json:

config: /home/me/my-app/package.json (property "repobuddy")
{
  "plugins": [
    "@repobuddy/typescript"
  ]
}

With no config:

config: not found

See Config file for the names buddy looks for.

--silent

buddy test-scripts --cwd nope --silent
echo $?

1

The error message is suppressed. Check the exit code instead.

--verbose and --debug-cli

Both print a clibuilder argv: line with the full command line, then the command’s normal output.

Related

• buddy overview