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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-attr.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt61
3 files changed, 61 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
index 30eca6cee6..1f7312a189 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git check-attr' attr... [--] pathname...
-'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] attr... < <list-of-paths>
+'git check-attr' [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname...
+'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] < <list-of-paths>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ For every pathname, this command will list if each attribute is 'unspecified',
OPTIONS
-------
+-a, --all::
+ List all attributes that are associated with the specified
+ paths. If this option is used, then 'unspecified' attributes
+ will not be included in the output.
+
--stdin::
Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
@@ -28,8 +33,11 @@ OPTIONS
\--::
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.
+ arguments as path names.
+
+If none of `--stdin`, `--all`, or `--` is used, the first argument
+will be treated as an attribute and the rest of the arguments as
+pathnames.
OUTPUT
------
@@ -69,6 +77,13 @@ org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
---------------
+* Listing all attributes for a file:
+---------------
+$ git check-attr --all -- org/example/MyClass.java
+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
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 2bbe76b5d8..25e46aeb7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -955,6 +955,9 @@ frotz unspecified
----------------------------------------------------------------
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-check-attr[1].
GIT
---
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
index 9d97eaa9de..ce363b6305 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
@@ -11,27 +11,15 @@ Data Structure
`struct git_attr`::
An attribute is an opaque object that is identified by its name.
- Pass the name and its length to `git_attr()` function to obtain
- the object of this type. The internal representation of this
- structure is of no interest to the calling programs.
+ Pass the name to `git_attr()` function to obtain the object of
+ this type. The internal representation of this structure is
+ of no interest to the calling programs. The name of the
+ attribute can be retrieved by calling `git_attr_name()`.
`struct git_attr_check`::
This structure represents a set of attributes to check in a call
- to `git_checkattr()` function, and receives the results.
-
-
-Calling Sequence
-----------------
-
-* Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` to define the list of
- attributes you would want to check. To populate this array, you would
- need to define necessary attributes by calling `git_attr()` function.
-
-* Call git_checkattr() to check the attributes for the path.
-
-* Inspect `git_attr_check` structure to see how each of the attribute in
- the array is defined for the path.
+ to `git_check_attr()` function, and receives the results.
Attribute Values
@@ -57,6 +45,19 @@ If none of the above returns true, `.value` member points at a string
value of the attribute for the path.
+Querying Specific Attributes
+----------------------------
+
+* Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` to define the list of
+ attributes you would want to check. To populate this array, you would
+ need to define necessary attributes by calling `git_attr()` function.
+
+* Call `git_check_attr()` to check the attributes for the path.
+
+* Inspect `git_attr_check` structure to see how each of the attribute in
+ the array is defined for the path.
+
+
Example
-------
@@ -72,18 +73,18 @@ static void setup_check(void)
{
if (check[0].attr)
return; /* already done */
- check[0].attr = git_attr("crlf", 4);
- check[1].attr = git_attr("ident", 5);
+ check[0].attr = git_attr("crlf");
+ check[1].attr = git_attr("ident");
}
------------
-. Call `git_checkattr()` with the prepared array of `struct git_attr_check`:
+. Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared array of `struct git_attr_check`:
------------
const char *path;
setup_check();
- git_checkattr(path, ARRAY_SIZE(check), check);
+ git_check_attr(path, ARRAY_SIZE(check), check);
------------
. Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check[]`:
@@ -108,4 +109,20 @@ static void setup_check(void)
}
------------
-(JC)
+
+Querying All Attributes
+-----------------------
+
+To get the values of all attributes associated with a file:
+
+* Call `git_all_attrs()`, which returns an array of `git_attr_check`
+ structures.
+
+* Iterate over the `git_attr_check` array to examine the attribute
+ names and values. The name of the attribute described by a
+ `git_attr_check` object can be retrieved via
+ `git_attr_name(check[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items will be
+ returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return false
+ for all returned `git_array_check` objects.)
+
+* Free the `git_array_check` array.