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authorMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2011-08-04 06:36:30 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-04 15:53:19 -0700
commit4ca0f188f6ece3098b60b6ba732e1e8551466f60 (patch)
tree1aa17c9a28853ac19588c1b0036c4ae27e5a9c0e /Documentation
parentfdf6be8259fc59fc251b325f66e86df0fe905e79 (diff)
downloadgit-4ca0f188f6ece3098b60b6ba732e1e8551466f60.tar.gz
git-check-attr: Add an --all option to show all attributes
Add new usage patterns git check-attr [-a | --all] [--] pathname... git check-attr --stdin [-a | --all] < <list-of-paths> which display all attributes associated with the specified file(s). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-attr.txt16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
index 30eca6cee6..798e5d5b4f 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.
@@ -69,6 +74,13 @@ 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