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NAME top

   git-check-ignore - Debug gitignore / exclude files

SYNOPSIS top

   _git check-ignore_ [<options>] <pathname>...
   _git check-ignore_ [<options>] --stdin

DESCRIPTION top

   For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
   **--stdin**, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or
   other input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if
   it is excluded.

   By default, tracked files are not shown at all since they are not
   subject to exclude rules; but see ‘--no-index’.

OPTIONS top

   -q, --quiet
       Don’t output anything, just set exit status. This is only
       valid with a single pathname.

   -v, --verbose
       Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path
       that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern
       together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually
       means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with "!"
       then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is
       NOT excluded.)

       For precedence rules within and between exclude sources, see
       [gitignore(5)](../man5/gitignore.5.html).

   --stdin
       Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, instead
       of from the command-line.

   -z
       The output format is modified to be machine-parsable (see
       below). If **--stdin** is also given, input paths are separated
       with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character.

   -n, --non-matching
       Show given paths which don’t match any pattern. This only
       makes sense when **--verbose** is enabled, otherwise it would not
       be possible to distinguish between paths which match a pattern
       and those which don’t.

   --no-index
       Don’t look in the index when undertaking the checks. This can
       be used to debug why a path became tracked by e.g.  **git add** .
       and was not ignored by the rules as expected by the user or
       when developing patterns including negation to match a path
       previously added with **git add -f**.

OUTPUT top

   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>

   If **-n** or **--non-matching** are specified, non-matching pathnames will
   also be output, in which case all fields in each output record
   except for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when
   running non-interactively, so that files can be incrementally
   streamed to STDIN of a long-running check-ignore process, and for
   each of these files, STDOUT will indicate whether that file
   matched a pattern or not. (Without this option, it would be
   impossible to tell whether the absence of output for a given file
   meant that it didn’t match any pattern, or that the output hadn’t
   been generated yet.)

   Buffering happens as documented under the **GIT_FLUSH** option in
   [git(1)](../man1/git.1.html). The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks caused by
   overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output
   buffer.

EXIT STATUS top

   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 top

   [gitignore(5)](../man5/gitignore.5.html) [git-config(1)](../man1/git-config.1.html) [git-ls-files(1)](../man1/git-ls-files.1.html)

GIT top

   Part of the [git(1)](../man1/git.1.html) suite

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