[digiKam-users] CLI options?

[Remco Viëtor]

On mardi 18 décembre 2018 08:57:52 CET Sky Diver wrote:
> In short:
> -----------
> Is there any CLI options that Digikam understands?
> Mainly: Can I pass Digikam the DB instance to use in the current
> session via CLI?

Have you tried "digikam --help" (that's more or less a de facto standard under 
linux)

> Background:
> -----------------
> I just recently realized that v6.0.0-beta* modifies the DB schema.
> From recent emails it seems that not all data is being upgraded
> according to the schema (I'm not sure if any upgrade process takes
> place or not).

You do realise that the "beta" in that version means "not suitable for 
production"? So not much reason to add a command line option just for the 
testing phase. 

But yes, there is an option "--database-directory", though it refers to SQLite 
(only?). There is also an option to specify the configuration file to use, 
that could also be useful.

Remco

P.S. For future reference: in many version number schemes, a change in *major* 
version number (here: 5→6) indicates a very strong possibility of 
incompatibility with older versions, with an *impossibility* to go back to the 
older version. the other parts indicate (again, in general) feature changes 
while remaining compatible, and bugfixes with no feature change.