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Which line ignores a file?

You have a file foo/bar.baz that is being ignored by a line in a .gitignore.

But you are unsure which line is responsible for ignoring this file.

You can use git check-ignore -v:

❯ git check-ignore -v foo/bar.baz
.gitignore:23:foo/*.baz foo/bar.baz