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Generated from bd help --doc batch. Run multiple write operations in a single database transaction. Commands are read from stdin (one per line) or from a file via -f/—file. All operations execute inside a single dolt transaction: on any error the whole batch is rolled back, otherwise it is committed with one DOLT_COMMIT. This is intended for shell scripts that currently invoke ‘bd’ many times in a loop, which causes severe write amplification on a dolt sql-server backed by btrfs+compression. Batching collapses N invocations into one transaction and one dolt commit. Grammar (one command per line): close <id> [reason…] update <id> <key>=<value> [<key>=<value> …] create <type> <priority> <title…> dep add <from-id> <to-id> [type] dep remove <from-id> <to-id> #comment (blank lines and ’# …’ comments are ignored) Supported ‘update’ keys: status, priority, title, assignee Supported dependency types: see ‘bd dep add —help’ (default: blocks) Tokens are whitespace-separated. Double-quoted strings (“like this”) may contain spaces; use ” to embed a quote and \ for a backslash. Examples:

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From a pipe

bd list —status stale -q | awk ‘{print “close”,$1,” stale”}’ | bd batch

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From a file

bd batch -f operations.txt

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Inline

printf ‘close bd-1 done\nupdate bd-2 status=in_progress\n’ | bd batch On success, exits 0 and prints a summary (or JSON with —json). On any error, rolls back the entire transaction and exits non-zero with the failing line. NOTE: This is a narrow subset. Commands like ‘show’, ‘list’, ‘ready’, ‘sync’, complex create flows, or any flag not listed above are NOT accepted. Use normal ‘bd’ subcommands for interactive/read operations. 
bd batch [flags]
Flags: 
      --dry-run          Parse input and echo commands without executing
  -f, --file string      Read commands from file instead of stdin
  -m, --message string   DOLT_COMMIT message (default: 'bd: batch N ops by <actor>')