tldr/pages/common/git-check-ignore.md

git check-ignore

Analyze and debug Git ignore/exclude (.gitignore) files. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-ignore.

• 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 ...}}