## NAME

git-check-attr - Display gitattributes information

## SYNOPSIS

    git check-attr [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname...
    git check-attr --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] < <list-of-paths>

## DESCRIPTION

For every pathname, this command will list if each attribute is unspecified, set, or unset as a gitattribute on that pathname.

## 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.

--cached

Consider .gitattributes in the index only, ignoring the working tree.

--stdin

Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.

-z

The output format is modified to be machine-parseable. If --stdin is also given, input paths are separated with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character.

--

Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following 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

The output is of the form: <path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF

unless -z is in effect, in which case NUL is used as delimiter: <path> NUL <attribute> NUL <info> NUL

<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.

Buffering happens as documented under the GIT_FLUSH option in git(1). The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output buffer.

## EXAMPLES

In the examples, the following .gitattributes file is used:

    *.java diff=java -crlf myAttr
    NoMyAttr.java !myAttr
    README caveat=unspecified

h'-04'(buh'+03'c

\(bu 2.3

Listing a single attribute:

    $ git check-attr diff org/example/MyClass.java
    org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java

h'-04'(buh'+03'c

\(bu 2.3

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

h'-04'(buh'+03'c

\(bu 2.3

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

h'-04'(buh'+03'c

\(bu 2.3

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

h'-04'(buh'+03'c

\(bu 2.3

Not all values are equally unambiguous:

    $ git check-attr caveat README
    README: caveat: unspecified

## SEE ALSO

gitattributes(5).

## GIT

Part of the git(1) suite