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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-02-17T15·57+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-02-17T15·57+0000
commite0181f56be2384b4ed93c0cacd5b2bbd13795dba (patch)
tree39ed9028f98087515bcd4f4cdaff8504a5724258 /src/nix-store/help.txt
parent74ab0695b5bec5c7239744a89df5b2a7112e916b (diff)
* `nix-store -q --tree' shows a tree representing the dependency graph
  of the given derivation.  Useful for getting a quick overview of how
  something was built.  E.g., to find out how the `baffle' program in
  your user environment was built, you can do

    $ nix-store -q --tree $(nix-store -qd $(which baffle))

  Tree nesting depth is minimised (?) by topologically sorting paths
  under the relation A < B iff A \in closure(B).

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@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ Query flags:
   --references: print all paths referenced by the given path
   --referers: print all paths directly refering to the given path
   --referers-closure: print all paths (in)directly refering to the given path
-  --graph: print a dot graph rooted at given ids
+  --tree: print a tree showing the dependency graph of the given paths
+  --graph: print a dot graph rooted at given paths
 
 Query switches (not applicable to all queries):