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 Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
31 Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a
32 NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
35 Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following
36 arguments as path names.
38 If none of `--stdin`, `--all`, or `--` is used, the first argument
39 will be treated as an attribute and the rest of the arguments as
45 The output is of the form:
46 <path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF
48 <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
49 being queried and <info> can be either:
51 'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path.
52 'unset';; when the attribute is defined as false.
53 'set';; when the attribute is defined as true.
54 <value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute.
59 In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used:
61 *.java diff=java -crlf myAttr
63 README caveat=unspecified
66 * Listing a single attribute:
68 $ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java
69 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
72 * Listing multiple attributes for a file:
74 $ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java
75 org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset
76 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
77 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
80 * Listing all attributes for a file:
82 $ git check-attr --all -- org/example/MyClass.java
83 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
84 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
87 * Listing an attribute for multiple files:
89 $ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java
90 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
91 org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified
94 * Not all values are equally unambiguous:
96 $ git check-attr caveat README
97 README: caveat: unspecified
102 linkgit:gitattributes[5].
106 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite