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GIT-CHECK-IGNORE(1)		  Git Manual		   GIT-CHECK-IGNORE(1)

NAME
       git-check-ignore - Debug gitignore / exclude files

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 --stdin is 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
       gitignore(5) gitconfig(5) git-ls-files(5)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 1.8.3.1			  06/24/2013		   GIT-CHECK-IGNORE(1)

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