4 gitattributes mechanism gives a uniform way to associate various
5 attributes to set of paths.
13 An attribute is an opaque object that is identified by its name.
14 Pass the name to `git_attr()` function to obtain the object of
15 this type. The internal representation of this structure is
16 of no interest to the calling programs. The name of the
17 attribute can be retrieved by calling `git_attr_name()`.
19 `struct git_attr_check`::
21 This structure represents a set of attributes to check in a call
22 to `git_check_attr()` function, and receives the results.
28 An attribute for a path can be in one of four states: Set, Unset,
29 Unspecified or set to a string, and `.value` member of `struct
30 git_attr_check` records it. There are three macros to check these:
34 Returns true if the attribute is Set for the path.
38 Returns true if the attribute is Unset for the path.
42 Returns true if the attribute is Unspecified for the path.
44 If none of the above returns true, `.value` member points at a string
45 value of the attribute for the path.
48 Querying Specific Attributes
49 ----------------------------
51 * Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` to define the list of
52 attributes you would want to check. To populate this array, you would
53 need to define necessary attributes by calling `git_attr()` function.
55 * Call `git_check_attr()` to check the attributes for the path.
57 * Inspect `git_attr_check` structure to see how each of the attribute in
58 the array is defined for the path.
64 To see how attributes "crlf" and "indent" are set for different paths.
66 . Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` with two elements (because
67 we are checking two attributes). Initialize their `attr` member with
68 pointers to `struct git_attr` obtained by calling `git_attr()`:
71 static struct git_attr_check check[2];
72 static void setup_check(void)
75 return; /* already done */
76 check[0].attr = git_attr("crlf");
77 check[1].attr = git_attr("ident");
81 . Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared array of `struct git_attr_check`:
87 git_check_attr(path, ARRAY_SIZE(check), check);
90 . Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check[]`:
93 const char *value = check[0].value;
95 if (ATTR_TRUE(value)) {
96 The attribute is Set, by listing only the name of the
97 attribute in the gitattributes file for the path.
98 } else if (ATTR_FALSE(value)) {
99 The attribute is Unset, by listing the name of the
100 attribute prefixed with a dash - for the path.
101 } else if (ATTR_UNSET(value)) {
102 The attribute is not set nor unset for the path.
103 } else if (!strcmp(value, "input")) {
104 If none of ATTR_TRUE(), ATTR_FALSE(), or ATTR_UNSET() is
105 true, the value is a string set in the gitattributes
106 file for the path by saying "attr=value".
107 } else if (... other check using value as string ...) {
113 Querying All Attributes
114 -----------------------
116 To get the values of all attributes associated with a file:
118 * Call `git_all_attrs()`, which returns an array of `git_attr_check`
121 * Iterate over the `git_attr_check` array to examine the attribute
122 names and values. The name of the attribute described by a
123 `git_attr_check` object can be retrieved via
124 `git_attr_name(check[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items will be
125 returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return false
126 for all returned `git_array_check` objects.)
128 * Free the `git_array_check` array.