6 git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information
12 'git check-attr' attr... [--] pathname...
13 'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] 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 Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
26 Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a
27 NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
30 Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following
31 arguments as path names. If not supplied, only the first argument will
32 be treated as an attribute.
37 The output is of the form:
38 <path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF
40 <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
41 being queried and <info> can be either:
43 'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path.
44 'unset';; when the attribute is defined as false.
45 'set';; when the attribute is defined as true.
46 <value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute.
51 In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used:
53 *.java diff=java -crlf myAttr
55 README caveat=unspecified
58 * Listing a single attribute:
60 $ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java
61 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
64 * Listing multiple attributes for a file:
66 $ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java
67 org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset
68 org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
69 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
72 * Listing an attribute for multiple files:
74 $ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java
75 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
76 org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified
79 * Not all values are equally unambiguous:
81 $ git check-attr caveat README
82 README: caveat: unspecified
87 linkgit:gitattributes[5].
92 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
96 Documentation by James Bowes.
100 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite