# incremental

URL: /bengal/cli/debug/incremental/
Section: debug
Description: Debug incremental rebuild decisions

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Command

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`bengal debug incremental`

Debug incremental rebuild decisions

4Options

## Usage

```
bengal debug incremental [OPTIONS]
```

## Options

Option
Type
Description

`--explain-page`

`STRING`

Explain why a specific page was rebuilt

`--output-file`

`STRING`

Output file (for JSON format)

`--output-format`

`STRING`

Output format: console or json

Default:`console`

`--source`

`STRING`

Source directory path