6 git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information
12 'git check-attr' [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname...
13 'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] < <list-of-paths>
17 For every pathname, this command will list if each attribute is 'unspecified',
18 'set', or 'unset' as a gitattribute on that pathname.
23 List all attributes that are associated with the specified
24 paths. If this option is used, then 'unspecified' attributes
25 will not be included in the output.
28 Consider `.gitattributes` in the index only, ignoring the working tree.
31 Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
34 Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a
35 NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
38 Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following
39 arguments as path names.
41 If none of `--stdin`, `--all`, or `--` is used, the first argument
42 will be treated as an attribute and the rest of the arguments as
48 The output is of the form:
49 <path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF
51 <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
52 being queried and <info> can be either:
54 'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path.
55 'unset';; when the attribute is defined as false.
56 'set';; when the attribute is defined as true.
57 <value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute.
62 In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used:
64 *.java diff=java -crlf myAttr
66 README caveat=unspecified
69 * Listing a single attribute:
71 $ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java
72 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
75 * Listing multiple attributes for a file:
77 $ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java
78 org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset
79 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
80 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
83 * Listing all attributes for a file:
85 $ git check-attr --all -- org/example/MyClass.java
86 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
87 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
90 * Listing an attribute for multiple files:
92 $ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java
93 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
94 org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified
97 * Not all values are equally unambiguous:
99 $ git check-attr caveat README
100 README: caveat: unspecified
105 linkgit:gitattributes[5].
109 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite