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* Documentation: add overview usage info for all dlv commands * Separate trace, adjust headless wording * Add headless command note Co-authored-by: Polina Sokolova <polinasok@users.noreply.github.com>
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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.