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diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 2b821f2a1d..50824e3a2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -3,25 +3,84 @@ git-check-attr(1) NAME ---- -git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information. +git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git check-attr' attr... [--] pathname... +'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] attr... < <list-of-paths> DESCRIPTION ----------- -For every pathname, this command will list if each attr is 'unspecified', +For every pathname, this command will list if each attribute is 'unspecified', 'set', or 'unset' as a gitattribute on that pathname. OPTIONS ------- +--stdin:: + Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line. + +-z:: + Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a + NUL character instead of a linefeed character. + \--:: - Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes, and all following + Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following arguments as path names. If not supplied, only the first argument will be treated as an attribute. +OUTPUT +------ + +The output is of the form: +<path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF + +<path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute +being queried and <info> can be either: + +'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path. +'unset';; when the attribute is defined as false. +'set';; when the attribute is defined as true. +<value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute. + +EXAMPLES +-------- + +In the examples, the following '.gitattributes' file is used: +--------------- +*.java diff=java -crlf myAttr +NoMyAttr.java !myAttr +README caveat=unspecified +--------------- + +* Listing a single attribute: +--------------- +$ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java +org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java +--------------- + +* Listing multiple attributes for a file: +--------------- +$ git check-attr crlf diff myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java +org/example/MyClass.java: crlf: unset +org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java +org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set +--------------- + +* Listing an attribute for multiple files: +--------------- +$ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java +org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set +org/example/NoMyAttr.java: myAttr: unspecified +--------------- + +* Not all values are equally unambiguous: +--------------- +$ git check-attr caveat README +README: caveat: unspecified +--------------- SEE ALSO -------- |