1git-check-attr(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git check-attr' attr... [--] pathname... 13'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] attr... < <list-of-paths> 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17For every pathname, this command will list if each attribute is 'unspecified', 18'set', or 'unset' as a gitattribute on that pathname. 19 20OPTIONS 21------- 22--stdin:: 23 Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. 24 25-z:: 26 Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a 27 NUL character instead of a linefeed character. 28 29\--:: 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. 33 34OUTPUT 35------ 36 37The output is of the form: 38<path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF 39 40<path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute 41being queried and <info> can be either: 42 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. 47 48EXAMPLES 49-------- 50 51In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used: 52--------------- 53*.java diff=java -crlf myAttr 54NoMyAttr.java !myAttr 55README caveat=unspecified 56--------------- 57 58* Listing a single attribute: 59--------------- 60$ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java 61org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java 62--------------- 63 64* Listing multiple attributes for a file: 65--------------- 66$ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java 67org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset 68org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java 69org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set 70--------------- 71 72* Listing an attribute for multiple files: 73--------------- 74$ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java 75org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set 76org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified 77--------------- 78 79* Not all values are equally unambiguous: 80--------------- 81$ git check-attr caveat README 82README: caveat: unspecified 83--------------- 84 85SEE ALSO 86-------- 87linkgit:gitattributes[5]. 88 89 90Author 91------ 92Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 93 94Documentation 95-------------- 96Documentation by James Bowes. 97 98GIT 99--- 100Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite