From 7c65e39d281298484f6ca5ffaf85ae703cafb3d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Phillips <paulp@improving.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:17:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] more me to read.

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 README.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bd80ed9db..49385c435 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,41 @@ An alternative script for running [sbt 0.10](https://github.com/harrah/xsbt).
 There's also a template project sbt coming together, but it's unfinished.
 However the runner is quite useful already.
 
-    ./sbt -help
+Here's a sample first run, which uses a shared boot directory and a local scala.
+
+    % ./sbt -shared /tmp/bippy -local /scala/inst/3 run
+    Downloading sbt launcher, this should only take a moment...
+      % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
+                                     Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
+    100  915k  100  915k    0     0   339k      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:--  354k
+    [info] Set current project to project-name-here (in build file:/repo/sbt-template/)
+    [info] Running template.Main 
+    Skeleton main, reporting for duty on version 2.10.0.r25487-b20110811131227
+    [success] Total time: 0 s, completed Aug 14, 2011 11:12:58 AM
+
+Adding -debug to the same command line reveals the command line arguments:
+
+    % ./sbt -shared /tmp/bippy -local /scala/inst/3 run
+    # Executing command line:
+    java
+    -Xss2m
+    -Xms256M
+    -Xmx1536M
+    -XX:MaxPermSize=256M
+    -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
+    -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
+    -Xmx2g
+    -Xss2m
+    -Dsbt.boot.directory=/tmp/bippy
+    -jar
+    /repo/sbt-template/lib/sbt-launch.jar
+    "set logLevel := Level.Debug"
+    "set scalaHome := Some(file("/scala/inst/3"))"
+    run
+
+Current -help output:
+
+    % ./sbt -help
 
     Usage: sbt [options]