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datalad - comprehensive data management solution

datalad [-c (:name|name=value)] [-C PATH] [--cmd] [-l LEVEL] [--on-failure {ignore,continue,stop}] [--report-status {success,failure,ok,notneeded,impossible,error}] [--report-type {dataset,file}] [-f {generic,json,json_pp,tailored,disabled,'<template>'}] [--dbg] [--idbg] [--version] COMMAND ...

DataLad provides a unified data distribution system built on the Git and Git-annex. DataLad command line tools allow to manipulate (obtain, create, update, publish, etc.) datasets and provide a comprehensive toolbox for joint management of data and code. Compared to Git/annex it primarily extends their functionality to transparently and simultaneously work with multiple inter-related repositories.

{create-sibling-github, create-sibling-gitlab, create-sibling-gogs, create-sibling-gin, create-sibling-gitea, create-sibling-ria, create-sibling, siblings, update, subdatasets, drop, remove, addurls, copy-file, download-url, foreach-dataset, install, rerun, run-procedure, create, save, status, clone, get, push, run, diff, configuration, wtf, clean, add-archive-content, add-readme, export-archive, export-archive-ora, export-to-figshare, no-annex, check-dates, unlock, uninstall, create-test-dataset, sshrun, shell-completion}

specify configuration setting overrides. They override any configuration read from a file. A configuration can also be unset temporarily by prefixing its name with a colon (':'), e.g. ':user.name'. Overrides specified here may be overridden themselves by configuration settings declared as environment variables.
run as if datalad was started in <path> instead of the current working directory. When multiple -C options are given, each subsequent non-absolute -C <path> is interpreted relative to the preceding -C <path>. This option affects the interpretations of the path names in that they are made relative to the working directory caused by the -C option
syntactical helper that can be used to end the list of global command line options before the subcommand label. Options taking an arbitrary number of arguments may require to be followed by a single --cmd in order to enable identification of the subcommand.
set logging verbosity level. Choose among critical, error, warning, info, debug. Also you can specify an integer <10 to provide even more debugging information
when an operation fails: 'ignore' and continue with remaining operations, the error is logged but does not lead to a non-zero exit code of the command; 'continue' works like 'ignore', but an error causes a non-zero exit code; 'stop' halts on first failure and yields non-zero exit code. A failure is any result with status 'impossible' or 'error'. [Default: 'continue', but individual commands may define an alternative default]
constrain command result report to records matching the given status. 'success' is a synonym for 'ok' OR 'notneeded', 'failure' stands for 'impossible' OR 'error'.
constrain command result report to records matching the given type. Can be given more than once to match multiple types.
select rendering mode command results. 'tailored' enables a command-specific rendering style that is typically tailored to human consumption, if there is one for a specific command, or otherwise falls back on the the 'generic' result renderer; 'generic' renders each result in one line with key info like action, status, path, and an optional message); 'json' a complete JSON line serialization of the full result record; 'json_pp' like 'json', but pretty-printed spanning multiple lines; 'disabled' turns off result rendering entirely; '<template>' reports any value(s) of any result properties in any format indicated by the template (e.g. '{path}', compare with JSON output for all key-value choices). The template syntax follows the Python "format() language". It is possible to report individual dictionary values, e.g. '{metadata[name]}'. If a 2nd-level key contains a colon, e.g. 'music:Genre', ':' must be substituted by '#' in the template, like so: '{metadata[music#Genre]}'. [Default: 'tailored']
enter Python debugger for an uncaught exception
enter IPython debugger for an uncaught exception
show the module and its version which provides the command


datalad is developed by The DataLad Team and Contributors <team@datalad.org>.

2023-01-25 datalad 0.18.1