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NAME
bk help − get help for BitKeeper commands

SYNOPSIS
bk help
[−akp] [−ffilename] specific-topic
bk help topics

DESCRIPTION
The bk help command displays the online help for the specified command or topic. Output gets displayed in the current command shell window. See bk helptool for information about the graphical interface for help.

A quick reference guide can be found in

`bk bin`/bk_refcard.pdf

To get a list of all bk help topics use

bk help topics

OPTIONS
−a
Just search the docs for the string topic. This matches substrings and prints the topic followed by the matching line.
−f
file Use file as the helptext file.
−k
Similar to −a, but only matches whole words.
−p
disable the use of any pager just send the output to stdout.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
We will be adding a bk man command to format the man pages on the fly.

SEE ALSO
bk-helptool

CATEGORY
Common


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se