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Am 19.01.2010 15:05 schrieb Peter Krefting:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra:
>=20
>> Instead of moving that out to a separate file and ignoring that file=
,=20
>> is it a good idea to add a feature to Git to allow ignoring content=20
>> instead of whole files?
>=20
> You should be able to do that by setting up a filter. Please see=20
> gitattributes(5) for more information (search for "filter").
>=20

Hi Ramkumar,

please have a look at this thread:
http://marc.info/?t=3D125882165900001&r=3D1&w=3D2
especially Bj=F6rn's suggestion to use a 'clean filter'. It worked fine
for me with a similar problem: I wanted Git to ignore a certain pattern
in my files.

HTH,
Dirk