git check-ignore

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Analyze and debug Git ignore/exclude (`.gitignore`) files.

Options (1)

-v, --verboseboolean

Include details about the matching pattern for each path

Example: git check-ignore {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}

Check whether a file or directory is ignored

git check-ignore path/to/file_or_directory

Check whether multiple files or directories are ignored

git check-ignore path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...

Use pathnames, one per line, from `stdin`

git < path/to/file_list check-ignore --stdin

Do not check the index (used to debug why paths were tracked and not ignored)

git check-ignore --no-index path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...

Include details about the matching pattern for each path

git check-ignore [-v|--verbose] path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...