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Document --debugWorker flag

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As a toil user, I was looking for a way to let my IDE set breakpoints in my toil workflow, and I came across #1910. Once I worked out I could --debugWorker, this totally solved my problem.

However, this flag isn’t documented:

I realise you may have done this because the flag is considered experimental (is it still experimental?), but even if it is I think it would be invaluable for users to document it in one or both of these places, even with some kind of disclaimer, because it improved productivity considerably for me.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task ┆Issue Number: TOIL-394

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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multimericcommented, Jul 11, 2019

I’m happy to put in a PR for this, but I figure it should have an issue and someone telling me it’s a reasonable change first.

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adamnovakcommented, Jul 15, 2019

I haven’t. It could certainly help people wade through our huge pile of options…

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