Checking the .gitattributes file (or other places where attributes can be defined) to see whether a specific file is affected by an attribute can be quite cumbersome, especially if there are many entries in these files. Git has a built-in method that can be used to tell whether a file has any attribute associated.
We'll use the attributes_example repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/dvaske/attributes_example.git $ cd attributes_example
We'll start by setting up all the attributes we had in the last example:
$ echo '*.jpg filter=binstore' > .gitattributes $ echo '*.jpg diff=exif-diff' >> .gitattributes $ echo "*.c filter=date-keyword" >> .gitattributes $ echo "*.java filter=date-keyword" >> .gitattributes
Now we are ready to check different files. We'll start on the keyword branch and check the two code files using the following command:
$ git checkout keyword Branch keyword set up to track remote branch...