6 Command-line Tools

This section describes command-line tools available after buildbot installation. Since version 0.8 the one-for-all buildbot command-line tool was divided into two parts namely buildbot and buildslave. The last one was separated from main command-line tool to minimize dependencies required for running a buildslave while leaving all other functions to buildbot tool.

Every command-line tool has a list of global options and a set of commands which have their own options. One can run these tools in the following way:

     buildbot [global options] command [command options]

Global options are the same for both tools which perform the following actions:

--help

Print general help about available commands and global options and exit. All subsequent arguments are ignored.

--verbose

Set verbose output.

--version

Print current buildbot version and exit. All subsequent arguments are ignored.

One can also get help on any command by specifying –help as a command option:

     buildbot command --help

You can also use manual pages for buildbot and buildslave for quick reference on command-line options.

• buildbot
• buildslave