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-rw-r--r--lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py b/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
index a347849f87..8c6444f602 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
@@ -210,7 +210,9 @@ def create_base_parser(prog, usage="", desc=None, epilog=None):
def add_verbosity_options(parser):
"""Add options for verbosity"""
parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', dest='verbosity', default=C.DEFAULT_VERBOSITY, action="count",
- help="verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging)")
+ help="Causes Ansible to print more debug messages. Adding multiple -v will increase the verbosity, "
+ "the builtin plugins currently evaluate up to -vvvvvv. A reasonable level to start is -vvv, "
+ "connection debugging might require -vvvv.")
def add_async_options(parser):