From: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can I restrict git-diff to a specific set of directories?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:33:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231893196.31432.7.camel@rotwang.fnordora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114000220.GB12624@atjola.homenet>
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 01:02 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2009.01.13 15:49:03 -0800, Alan wrote:
> > I have a repository that I need to build a set of patches for a single
> > directory path. (I just want the diffs on the one driver.)
> >
> > Is there a clean non-hacky way to do this?
> >
> > It is not cross repository or anything. I just need to generate a diff
> > between one commit and another, but only for the contents of a specific
> > directory.
> >
> > I am not finding a real straightforward way to do that. (Unless I am
> > missing something, which is quite possible.)
>
> git diff commitA commitB -- some/paths/here some/more/here and/then/some
>
> That limits the diff to the paths after the dashes.
Thanks! That is EXACTLY what I need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 23:49 How can I restrict git-diff to a specific set of directories? Alan
2009-01-14 0:02 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-01-14 0:33 ` Alan [this message]
2009-01-14 0:02 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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