1git-check-ignore(1) 2=================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-check-ignore - Debug gitignore / exclude files 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git check-ignore' [options] pathname... 13'git check-ignore' [options] --stdin < <list-of-paths> 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17 18For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via 19`--stdin`, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to 20the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or 21included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier 22ones. 23 24By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not 25subject to exclude rules; but see `--no-index'. 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29-q, --quiet:: 30 Don't output anything, just set exit status. This is only 31 valid with a single pathname. 32 33-v, --verbose:: 34 Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) 35 for each given pathname. 36 37--stdin:: 38 Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. 39 40-z:: 41 The output format is modified to be machine-parseable (see 42 below). If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated 43 with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. 44 45-n, --non-matching:: 46 Show given paths which don't match any pattern. This only 47 makes sense when `--verbose` is enabled, otherwise it would 48 not be possible to distinguish between paths which match a 49 pattern and those which don't. 50 51--no-index:: 52 Don't look in the index when undertaking the checks. This can 53 be used to debug why a path became tracked by e.g. `git add .` 54 and was not ignored by the rules as expected by the user or when 55 developing patterns including negation to match a path previously 56 added with `git add -f`. 57 58OUTPUT 59------ 60 61By default, any of the given pathnames which match an ignore pattern 62will be output, one per line. If no pattern matches a given path, 63nothing will be output for that path; this means that path will not be 64ignored. 65 66If `--verbose` is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form: 67 68<source> <COLON> <linenum> <COLON> <pattern> <HT> <pathname> 69 70<pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the 71matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum> 72is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern 73contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the 74output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file 75configured by `core.excludesfile`, or relative to the repository root 76when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file. 77 78If `-z` is specified, the pathnames in the output are delimited by the 79null character; if `--verbose` is also specified then null characters 80are also used instead of colons and hard tabs: 81 82<source> <NULL> <linenum> <NULL> <pattern> <NULL> <pathname> <NULL> 83 84If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will 85also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except 86for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when running 87non-interactively, so that files can be incrementally streamed to 88STDIN of a long-running check-ignore process, and for each of these 89files, STDOUT will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or 90not. (Without this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the 91absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any 92pattern, or that the output hadn't been generated yet.) 93 94Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in 95linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks 96caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output 97buffer. 98 99EXIT STATUS 100----------- 101 1020:: 103 One or more of the provided paths is ignored. 104 1051:: 106 None of the provided paths are ignored. 107 108128:: 109 A fatal error was encountered. 110 111SEE ALSO 112-------- 113linkgit:gitignore[5] 114linkgit:gitconfig[5] 115linkgit:git-ls-files[1] 116 117GIT 118--- 119Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite