1git-check-attr(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git check-attr' attr... [--] pathname... 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15For every pathname, this command will list if each attr is 'unspecified', 16'set', or 'unset' as a gitattribute on that pathname. 17 18OPTIONS 19------- 20\--:: 21 Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes, and all following 22 arguments as path names. If not supplied, only the first argument will 23 be treated as an attribute. 24 25OUTPUT 26------ 27 28The output is of the form: 29<path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF 30 31Where <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute 32being queried and <info> can be either: 33 34'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path. 35'unset';; when the attribute is defined to false. 36'set';; when the attribute is defined to true. 37<value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute. 38 39EXAMPLES 40-------- 41 42In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used: 43--------------- 44*.java diff=java -crlf myAttr 45NoMyAttr.java !myAttr 46README caveat=unspecified 47--------------- 48 49* Listing a single attribute: 50--------------- 51$ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java 52org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java 53--------------- 54 55* Listing multiple attributes for a file: 56--------------- 57$ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java 58org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset 59org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java 60org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set 61--------------- 62 63* Listing attribute for multiple files: 64--------------- 65$ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java 66org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set 67org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified 68--------------- 69 70* Not all values are equally unambiguous: 71--------------- 72$ git check-attr caveat README 73README: caveat: unspecified 74--------------- 75 76SEE ALSO 77-------- 78linkgit:gitattributes[5]. 79 80 81Author 82------ 83Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 84 85Documentation 86-------------- 87Documentation by James Bowes. 88 89GIT 90--- 91Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite