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 attr_check_item`::
21 This structure represents one attribute and its value.
25 This structure represents a collection of `attr_check_item`.
26 It is passed to `git_check_attr()` function, specifying the
27 attributes to check, and receives their values.
33 An attribute for a path can be in one of four states: Set, Unset,
34 Unspecified or set to a string, and `.value` member of `struct
35 attr_check_item` records it. There are three macros to check these:
39 Returns true if the attribute is Set for the path.
43 Returns true if the attribute is Unset for the path.
47 Returns true if the attribute is Unspecified for the path.
49 If none of the above returns true, `.value` member points at a string
50 value of the attribute for the path.
53 Querying Specific Attributes
54 ----------------------------
56 * Prepare `struct attr_check` using attr_check_initl()
57 function, enumerating the names of attributes whose values you are
58 interested in, terminated with a NULL pointer. Alternatively, an
59 empty `struct attr_check` can be prepared by calling
60 `attr_check_alloc()` function and then attributes you want to
61 ask about can be added to it with `attr_check_append()`
64 * Call `git_check_attr()` to check the attributes for the path.
66 * Inspect `attr_check` structure to see how each of the
67 attribute in the array is defined for the path.
73 To see how attributes "crlf" and "ident" are set for different paths.
75 . Prepare a `struct attr_check` with two elements (because
76 we are checking two attributes):
79 static struct attr_check *check;
80 static void setup_check(void)
83 return; /* already done */
84 check = attr_check_initl("crlf", "ident", NULL);
88 . Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared `struct attr_check`:
94 git_check_attr(path, check);
97 . Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check->items[]`:
100 const char *value = check->items[0].value;
102 if (ATTR_TRUE(value)) {
103 The attribute is Set, by listing only the name of the
104 attribute in the gitattributes file for the path.
105 } else if (ATTR_FALSE(value)) {
106 The attribute is Unset, by listing the name of the
107 attribute prefixed with a dash - for the path.
108 } else if (ATTR_UNSET(value)) {
109 The attribute is neither set nor unset for the path.
110 } else if (!strcmp(value, "input")) {
111 If none of ATTR_TRUE(), ATTR_FALSE(), or ATTR_UNSET() is
112 true, the value is a string set in the gitattributes
113 file for the path by saying "attr=value".
114 } else if (... other check using value as string ...) {
119 To see how attributes in argv[] are set for different paths, only
120 the first step in the above would be different.
123 static struct attr_check *check;
124 static void setup_check(const char **argv)
126 check = attr_check_alloc();
128 struct git_attr *attr = git_attr(*argv);
129 attr_check_append(check, attr);
136 Querying All Attributes
137 -----------------------
139 To get the values of all attributes associated with a file:
141 * Prepare an empty `attr_check` structure by calling
142 `attr_check_alloc()`.
144 * Call `git_all_attrs()`, which populates the `attr_check`
145 with the attributes attached to the path.
147 * Iterate over the `attr_check.items[]` array to examine
148 the attribute names and values. The name of the attribute
149 described by a `attr_check.items[]` object can be retrieved via
150 `git_attr_name(check->items[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items
151 will be returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return
152 false for all returned `attr_check.items[]` objects.)
154 * Free the `attr_check` struct by calling `attr_check_free()`.