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.
59 Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in
60 linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks
61 caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output
67 In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used:
69 *.java diff=java -crlf myAttr
71 README caveat=unspecified
74 * Listing a single attribute:
76 $ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java
77 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
80 * Listing multiple attributes for a file:
82 $ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java
83 org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset
84 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
85 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
88 * Listing all attributes for a file:
90 $ git check-attr --all -- org/example/MyClass.java
91 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
92 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
95 * Listing an attribute for multiple files:
97 $ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java
98 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
99 org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified
102 * Not all values are equally unambiguous:
104 $ git check-attr caveat README
105 README: caveat: unspecified
110 linkgit:gitattributes[5].
114 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite