# Overview

The jadegit console utility provides a command line interface to perform functions outside of the JADE IDE.

## Variants

Variants of the console utility are built/linked to other components to suit different use cases.

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The development jadegit console variant is built for a specific JADE platform version (alongside the other libraries used with the JADE IDE), and needs to be run with matching JADE binaries & database.

This has following options & subcommands:

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The standalone jadegit console variant is intended for use during a devops pipeline to build a deployment from a code repository, independently of a JADE database.

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## Shell

For all variants of the console utility, when no subcommands are specified with the basic jadegit command, it will enter into a shell mode during which a series of subcommands may be issued interactively until the `exit` command is used to close the shell in a graceful manner.

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&#x20;The following sections discuss each of the jadegit subcommands.