Commit 4dca1f24 authored by Jeromy's avatar Jeromy

better doc strings

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeromy <jeromyj@gmail.com>
parent d4ffc945
......@@ -20,29 +20,8 @@ var ObjectPatchCmd = &cmds.Command{
Tagline: "Create a new merkledag object based on an existing one",
ShortDescription: `
'ipfs object patch <root> <cmd> <args>' is a plumbing command used to
build custom DAG objects. It adds and removes links from objects, creating a new
object as a result. This is the merkle-dag version of modifying an object. It
can also set the data inside a node with 'set-data' and append to that data as
well with 'append-data'.
Patch commands:
add-link <name> <ref> - adds a link to a node
rm-link <name> - removes a link from a node
set-data - sets a nodes data from stdin
append-data - appends to a nodes data from stdin
ipfs object patch $FOO_BAR rm-link foo
This removes the link named foo from the hash in $FOO_BAR and returns the
resulting object hash.
The data inside the node can be modified as well:
ipfs object patch $FOO_BAR set-data < file.dat
ipfs object patch $FOO_BAR append-data < file.dat
build custom DAG objects. It mutates objects, creating new objects as a
result. This is the merkle-dag version of modifying an object.
`,
},
Arguments: []cmds.Argument{},
......@@ -67,7 +46,15 @@ var patchAppendDataCmd = &cmds.Command{
Helptext: cmds.HelpText{
Tagline: "Append data to the data segment of a dag node",
ShortDescription: `
`,
Append data to what already exists in the data segment in the given object.
EXAMPLE:
$ echo "hello" | ipfs object patch $HASH append-data
note: this does not append data to a 'file', it modifies the actual raw
data within an object. Objects have a max size of 1MB and objects larger than
the limit will not be respected by the network.
`,
},
Arguments: []cmds.Argument{
cmds.StringArg("root", true, false, "the hash of the node to modify"),
......@@ -162,7 +149,12 @@ var patchSetDataCmd = &cmds.Command{
}
var patchRmLinkCmd = &cmds.Command{
Helptext: cmds.HelpText{},
Helptext: cmds.HelpText{
Tagline: "remove a link from an object",
ShortDescription: `
removes a link by the given name from root.
`,
},
Arguments: []cmds.Argument{
cmds.StringArg("root", true, false, "the hash of the node to modify"),
cmds.StringArg("link", true, false, "name of the link to remove"),
......@@ -220,6 +212,8 @@ var patchAddLinkCmd = &cmds.Command{
Helptext: cmds.HelpText{
Tagline: "add a link to a given object",
ShortDescription: `
Add a merkle-link to the given object and return the hash of the result.
Examples:
EMPTY_DIR=$(ipfs object new unixfs-dir)
......
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