SYNOPSIS
git check-ignore [options] pathname… git check-ignore [options] --stdin < <list-of-paths>
DESCRIPTION
For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
--stdin, show the pattern from .gitignore (or other input files to
the exclude mechanism) that decides if the pathname is excluded or
included. Later patterns within a file take precedence over earlier
ones.
OPTIONS
- -q, --quiet
-
Don’t output anything, just set exit status. This is only valid with a single pathname.
- -v, --verbose
-
Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) for each given pathname.
- --stdin
-
Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
- -z
-
The output format is modified to be machine-parseable (see below). If
--stdinis also given, input paths are separated with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
OUTPUT
By default, any of the given pathnames which match an ignore pattern will be output, one per line. If no pattern matches a given path, nothing will be output for that path; this means that path will not be ignored.
If --verbose is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form:
<source> <COLON> <linenum> <COLON> <pattern> <HT> <pathname>
<pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the
matching pattern, <source> is the pattern’s source file, and <linenum>
is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern
contained a ! prefix or / suffix, it will be preserved in the
output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file
configured by core.excludesfile, or relative to the repository root
when referring to .git/info/exclude or a per-directory exclude file.
If -z is specified, the pathnames in the output are delimited by the
null character; if --verbose is also specified then null characters
are also used instead of colons and hard tabs:
<source> <NULL> <linenum> <NULL> <pattern> <NULL> <pathname> <NULL>
EXIT STATUS
- 0
-
One or more of the provided paths is ignored.
- 1
-
None of the provided paths are ignored.
- 128
-
A fatal error was encountered.
SEE ALSO
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite