What to include
The two questions that block almost every bug investigation are what version and what command. If you can answer both, you’ve already done most of our work for us. A good report has:
- cshw version — run
versionat the prompt - Windows build — run
verat the prompt, or use Settings → System → About - The exact command you ran, copy-pasted (including any pipe, redirect, or quoting)
- What you expected to happen
- What actually happened — output, error message, hang, crash, weird behavior
- Reproducible steps if it’s not obvious from the command itself
Quick diagnostic snippet
Paste this into cshw and include the output in your report:
version ver echo "PATH=$PATH"
That covers the “what version, what OS, what environment” baseline for 90% of reports.
For crashes
If cshw crashes outright, run it again from a Windows Terminal tab so the crash trace appears in the scrollback. Include the last few lines of output and the command that triggered it. If you have WerFault dump files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps\, mention that — we may ask for one.
Feature requests & questions
Not a bug? Email hello@tropibyte.com instead. We read everything, even when we can’t reply quickly.
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