DOIT(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay bestie, say hi to doit — the build-tools that execute any kind of task you throw at it. literally any. no cap. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so doit is an automation tool and the whole vibe lives at http://pydoit.org 🫶

🌸 Commands 🌸

here's the full lineup, no skips, no edits, every single one:

• doit clean — clean action / remove targets 🧹
• doit dumpdb — dump dependency DB 📦
• doit forget — clear successful run status from internal DB 🫥
• doit help — show help 🙋
• doit ignore — ignore task (skip) on subsequent runs 🙈
• doit info — show info about a task ℹ️
• doit list — list tasks from dodo file 📝
• doit reset-dep — recompute and save the state of file dependencies without executing actions 🔄
• doit run — run tasks 🏃
• doit strace — use strace to list file_deps and targets 🔍
• doit tabcompletion — generate script for tab-completion ⚡
• doit help — show help / reference 📖
• doit help task — show help on task dictionary fields 🗂️
• doit help <command> — show command usage 🧭
• doit help <task-name> — show task usage 🎀

not me listing doit help twice — that's literally what the page says and I'm keeping it, periodt. 💖

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that's the whole thing, bestie — short and iconic, it ate and left no crumbs. 👑

this beauty is doit version 0.36.0, dated May 2025 — love that for us, fr fr. 🌈💜