1git-check-attr(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git check-attr' [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname... 13'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] 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-a, --all:: 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. 26 27--cached:: 28 Consider `.gitattributes` in the index only, ignoring the working tree. 29 30--stdin:: 31 Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, 32 instead of from the command-line. 33 34-z:: 35 The output format is modified to be machine-parseable. 36 If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated 37 with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. 38 39\--:: 40 Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following 41 arguments as path names. 42 43If none of `--stdin`, `--all`, or `--` is used, the first argument 44will be treated as an attribute and the rest of the arguments as 45pathnames. 46 47OUTPUT 48------ 49 50The output is of the form: 51<path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF 52 53unless `-z` is in effect, in which case NUL is used as delimiter: 54<path> NUL <attribute> NUL <info> NUL 55 56 57<path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute 58being queried and <info> can be either: 59 60'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path. 61'unset';; when the attribute is defined as false. 62'set';; when the attribute is defined as true. 63<value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute. 64 65Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in 66linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks 67caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output 68buffer. 69 70EXAMPLES 71-------- 72 73In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used: 74--------------- 75*.java diff=java -crlf myAttr 76NoMyAttr.java !myAttr 77README caveat=unspecified 78--------------- 79 80* Listing a single attribute: 81--------------- 82$ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java 83org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java 84--------------- 85 86* Listing multiple attributes for a file: 87--------------- 88$ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java 89org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset 90org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java 91org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set 92--------------- 93 94* Listing all attributes for a file: 95--------------- 96$ git check-attr --all -- org/example/MyClass.java 97org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java 98org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set 99--------------- 100 101* Listing an attribute for multiple files: 102--------------- 103$ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java 104org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set 105org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified 106--------------- 107 108* Not all values are equally unambiguous: 109--------------- 110$ git check-attr caveat README 111README: caveat: unspecified 112--------------- 113 114SEE ALSO 115-------- 116linkgit:gitattributes[5]. 117 118GIT 119--- 120Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite