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diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 854e4d0c42..8e1f7ab7ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ OPTIONS below). If `--stdin` is also given, input paths are separated with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. +-n, --non-matching:: + Show given paths which don't match any pattern. This only + makes sense when `--verbose` is enabled, otherwise it would + not be possible to distinguish between paths which match a + pattern and those which don't. + OUTPUT ------ @@ -65,6 +71,20 @@ are also used instead of colons and hard tabs: <source> <NULL> <linenum> <NULL> <pattern> <NULL> <pathname> <NULL> +If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will +also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except +for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when running +non-interactively, so that files can be incrementally streamed to +STDIN of a long-running check-ignore process, and for each of these +files, STDOUT will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or +not. (Without this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the +absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any +pattern, or that the output hadn't been generated yet.) + +Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in +linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks +caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output +buffer. EXIT STATUS ----------- |