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From: Raphael Zimmerer <killekulla@rdrz.de>
To: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Excluding files from git-diff
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:08:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081017150851.GA20860@rdrz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081017145313.GA23471@eriks>

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:53:13PM +0200, Erik Hahn wrote:
> I'm currently working on a script whose developer does not use
> git. Hence, when I mail him the patch, I don't want to include the
> .gitignore file. Is it possible to exclude a file from git-diff (except
> not adding it to git, of course?)

Just add the content of .gitignore to .git/info/exclude, and remove
.gitignore from the repository.

Raphael

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-17 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17 14:53 Excluding files from git-diff Erik Hahn
2008-10-17 15:08 ` Raphael Zimmerer [this message]
2008-10-17 15:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-17 15:18 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-10-17 16:30   ` Christian Jaeger
2008-10-17 17:33     ` Eric Raible
2008-10-18  3:50       ` Christian Jaeger
2008-10-18 15:59     ` Jeff King
2008-10-18 16:08       ` Christian Jaeger
2008-10-18 16:14         ` Jeff King
2008-10-18 16:58           ` Jeff King
2008-10-17 23:38 ` Anders Melchiorsen

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