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:
is the path of a file being queried, is the
matching pattern, is the pattern’s source file, and
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.
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:
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