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## Reloading modules
-You can invalidate your local `DENO_DIR` cache using the `--reload` flag. It's
+By default, a module in the cache will be reused without fetching or
+re-compiling it. Sometimes this is not desirable and you can force deno to
+refetch and recompile modules into the cache. You can invalidate your local
+`DENO_DIR` cache using the `--reload` flag of the `deno cache` subcommand. It's
usage is described below:
-To reload everything
+### To reload everything
-`--reload`
+```ts
+deno cache --reload my_module.ts
+
+```
+
+### To reload specific modules
Sometimes we want to upgrade only some modules. You can control it by passing an
argument to a `--reload` flag.
-To reload all standard modules
+To reload all v0.55.0 standard modules
-`--reload=https://deno.land/std`
+```ts
+deno cache --reload=https://deno.land/std@v0.55.0 my_module.ts
+```
To reload specific modules (in this example - colors and file system copy) use a
comma to separate URLs
-`--reload=https://deno.land/std/fs/copy.ts,https://deno.land/std/fmt/colors.ts`
+```ts
+deno cache --reload=https://deno.land/std/fs/copy.ts,https://deno.land/std/fmt/colors.ts my_module.ts
+```
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