IVY(1)

💅 IVY(1)

ok so real talk — you're looking at the ivy page from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? she's a lot, but she's also iconic. grab a strawberry drink 🍓 and let's go.

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✨ NAME ✨

ivy — the Ivy dependency manager. (the page literally says "depedency" and we're keeping her exactly as she is, no cap, we don't edit legends 💀)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ivy [options ...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ivy just... invokes the Ivy dependency manager from the command line. that's the whole vibe. she's the little doorway you walk through to get to the actual dependency-managing business 🚪✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

🧚 Settings Options

• -settings settingsfile — use the file you give her as the settings file.
• -cache cachedir — use the directory you give her as the cache directory.
• -novalidate — do not validate ivy files against xsd. (skipping the vibe check, we respect it 🙈)
• -m2compatible — turn on maven2 compatibility.

🔥 Resolve Options

• -ivy ivyfile — use the file you pass as the ivy file.
• -refresh — refresh dynamic resolved revisions.
• -dependency organisation module revision — instead of using an ivy file, do the rest of the work with this as the dependency. three little args, one big job 🫶
• -confs configurations — resolve the configurations you name.
• -types types — a comma separated list of accepted artifact types.
• -mode resolvemode — the resolve mode to use.
• -notransitive — do not resolve dependencies transitively. keep it shallow, bestie 💅

🌈 Retrieve Options

• -retrieve retrievepattern — use the given pattern as the retrieve pattern.
• -ivypattern pattern — use the given pattern to copy the ivy files.
• -sync — use sync mode for retrieve.
• -symlink — create symbolic links.

⭐ Cache Path Options

• -cachepath cachepathfile — outputs a classpath consisting of all dependencies in cache (including the transitive ones, yes, even those 😭) of the given ivy file, into the given cachepathfile.

🎀 Deliver Options

• -deliverto ivypattern — use the given pattern as the resolved ivy file pattern.

👑 Publish Options

• -publish resolvername — use the given resolver to publish to.
• -publishpattern artpattern — use the given pattern to find the artifacts to publish.
• -revision revision — use the given revision to publish the module.
• -status status — use the given status to publish the module.
• -overwrite — overwrite files in the repository if they already exist. (dramatic gasp — she will absolutely replace them 💀)

🔐 HTTP Auth Options

• -realm realm — use the given realm for HTTP AUTH.
• -host host — use the given host for HTTP AUTH.
• -username username — use the given username for HTTP AUTH.
• -passwd passwd — use the given password for HTTP AUTH. (shhh, don't screenshot this one 🤫)

🚀 Launcher Options

• -main main — the FQCN of the main class to launch.
• -args args — the arguments to give to the launched process.
• -cp cp — extra classpath to use when launching the process.

💬 Message Options

• -debug — set message level to debug.
• -verbose — set message level to verbose.
• -warn — set message level to warn.
• -error — set message level to error.

🫶 Help Options

• -? — display this help. (the classic "help me help you" moment)
• -deprecated — show deprecated options. (the ancient scrolls, the relics, the "we don't talk about her anymore" list 📜)
• -version — displays version information.

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

Ivy: The agile dependency manager, http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ — go read, she's worth it 💖

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that honestly 👑✨ and for the credits: this manual page is from Debian, dated January 2, 2013 — vintage, but make it fashion. mwah 💋🎀