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authorPeter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>2011-10-03 03:02:11 (GMT)
committerPeter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>2011-11-04 19:10:31 (GMT)
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Add a "commands" tool
This tool performs a post-order traversal of the build graph, starting from a list of targets specified on the command line, and for each build statement encountered, prints the evaluated command line. Use cases include: - Generating input for a tool which needs to know the full command line for every command invoked during a build. Many static analysis and indexing tools require this information. - Generating a build script which does not depend on Ninja. For example, such a script could be used by Ninja to bootstrap itself.
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@@ -382,6 +382,10 @@ than the _depth_ mode. It returns non-zero if an error occurs.
one. It can be used to know which rule name to pass to
+ninja -t targets rule _name_+.
+`commands`:: given a list of targets, print a list of commands which, if
+executed in order, may be used to rebuild those targets, assuming that all
+output files are out of date.
+
`clean`:: remove built files. If used like this +ninja -t clean+ it removes
all the built files, except for those created by the generator. If used
like this +ninja -t clean -g+ it also removes built files created by the