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User Guide
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Mach is the central entry point for most operations that can be performed in
mozilla-central.
Command Help
------------
To see an overview of all the available commands, run:
.. code-block:: shell
$ ./mach help
For more detailed information on a specific command, run:
.. code-block:: shell
$ ./mach help <command>
If a command has subcommands listed, you can see more details on the subcommand
by running:
.. code-block:: shell
$ ./mach help <command> <subcommand>
Alternatively, you can pass ``-h/--help``. For example, all of the
following are valid:
.. code-block:: shell
$ ./mach help try
$ ./mach help try fuzzy
$ ./mach try -h
$ ./mach try fuzzy --help
Tab Completion
--------------
There are commands built-in to ``mach`` that can generate a fast tab completion
script for various shells. Supported shells are currently ``bash``, ``zsh`` and
``fish``. These generated scripts will slowly become out of date over time, so
you may want to create a cron task to periodically re-generate them.
See below for installation instructions:
Bash
~~~~
.. code-block:: shell
$ mach mach-completion bash -f _mach
$ sudo mv _mach /etc/bash_completion.d
Bash (homebrew)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code-block:: shell
$ mach mach-completion bash -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/mach.bash-completion
Zsh
~~~
.. code-block:: shell
$ mkdir ~/.zfunc
$ mach mach-completion zsh -f ~/.zfunc/_mach
then edit ~/.zshrc and add:
.. code-block:: shell
fpath+=~/.zfunc
autoload -U compinit && compinit
You can use any directory of your choosing.
Zsh (oh-my-zsh)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code-block:: shell
$ mkdir $ZSH/plugins/mach
$ mach mach-completion zsh -f $ZSH/plugins/mach/_mach
then edit ~/.zshrc and add 'mach' to your enabled plugins:
.. code-block:: shell
plugins(mach ...)
Zsh (prezto)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code-block:: shell
$ mach mach-completion zsh -f ~/.zprezto/modules/completion/external/src/_mach
Fish
~~~~
.. code-block:: shell
$ ./mach mach-completion fish -f ~/.config/fish/completions/mach.fish
Fish (homebrew)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code-block:: shell
$ ./mach mach-completion fish -f (brew --prefix)/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/mach.fish
User Settings
-------------
Some mach commands can read configuration from a ``machrc`` file. The default
location for this file is ``~/.mozbuild/machrc`` (you'll need to create it).
This can also be set to a different location by setting the ``MACHRC``
environment variable.
For a list of all the available settings, run:
.. code-block:: shell
$ ./mach settings
The settings file follows the ``ini`` format, e.g:
.. code-block:: ini
[alias]
eslint = lint -l eslint
[build]
telemetry = true
[try]
default = fuzzy