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.bazelrc flags you should enable

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Alex Eagle
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943
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English
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Summary

The guide provides detailed recommendations for configuring the `.bazelrc` file to enhance Bazel's build and test processes, emphasizing the importance of incremental changes to avoid disruptive issues. Key configurations include settings to enforce sandboxing, prevent non-hermetic actions, and manage environment variables to reduce cache misses. It also highlights strategies for improving performance, such as skipping unnecessary checks, optimizing remote cache usage, and enabling features like in-process symlink creation for file input flexibility. The guide suggests using developer-specific overrides in a personal `.bazelrc.user` file while advising against certain flags that could unnecessarily increase build times, recommending their use only during release builds.

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