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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
To: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can I restrict git-diff to a specific set of directories?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:02:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901131802.33879.bss@iguanasuicide.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231890543.31432.5.camel@rotwang.fnordora.org>

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On Tuesday 2009 January 13 17:49:03 Alan wrote:
>I 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.

I think:
git diff one_commit another -- specific/directory
is supposed to do what you want.  However, I've never used it myself.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14  0:03 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
2009-01-14  0:02 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]

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