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Due to some very old mistakes too many of Delve's flags are declared as persistent on cobra's root command. For example the headless flag is a global flag but does not apply to connect, dap or trace; the backend flag does not apply to replay, core and dap; etc. Almost all global flags should have been declared as local flags on individual subcommands. Unfortunately we can not change this without breaking backwards compatibility, for example: dlv --headless debug would not parse if headless was a flag of debug instead of a global flag. Instead we alter usage function and the markdown generation script to strategically hide the flags that don't apply. Fixes #2361 |
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| dlv_attach.md | ||
| dlv_backend.md | ||
| dlv_connect.md | ||
| dlv_core.md | ||
| dlv_dap.md | ||
| dlv_debug.md | ||
| dlv_exec.md | ||
| dlv_log.md | ||
| dlv_redirect.md | ||
| dlv_replay.md | ||
| dlv_run.md | ||
| dlv_test.md | ||
| dlv_trace.md | ||
| dlv_version.md | ||
| dlv.md | ||
| README.md | ||
Using Delve
You can invoke Delve in multiple ways, depending on your usage needs. Delve makes every attempt to be user-friendly, ensuring the user has to do the least amount of work possible to begin debugging their program.
The available commands can be grouped into the following categories:
- Specify target and start debugging with the default terminal interface:
- Trace target program execution
- Start a headless backend server only and connect with an external frontend client:
- dlv --headless <command> <target> <args>
- starts a server, enters a debug session for the specified target and waits to accept a client connection over JSON-RPC or DAP
<command>can be any ofdebug,test,exec,attach,coreorreplay- if
--headlessflag is not specified the default terminal client will be automatically started instead - compatible with dlv connect, VS Code Go, GoLand
- dlv dap
- starts a DAP-only server and waits for a DAP client connection to specify the target and arguments
- compatible with VS Code Go
- NOT compatible with dlv connect, GoLand
- dlv connect <addr>
- starts a terminal interface client and connects it to a running headless server over JSON-RPC
- dlv --headless <command> <target> <args>
- Help information
The above list may be incomplete. Refer to the auto-generated complete usage document to further explore all available commands.
Environment variables
Delve also reads the following environment variables:
$DELVE_EDITORis used by theeditcommand (if it isn't set the$EDITORvariable is used instead)$DELVE_PAGERis used by commands that emit large output (if it isn't set the$PAGERvariable is used instead, if neither is setmoreis used)$TERMis used to decide whether or not ANSI escape codes should be used for colorized output$DELVE_DEBUGSERVER_PATHis used to locate the debugserver executable on macOS