From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to exclude files from "git diff"
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:45:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105064509.GC19025@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dc9ffc80912180909q2e9cbe30r7c802a2152c5954@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:09:15AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> I have some bookkeeping files in my git repository. How do I
> exclude them from "git diff"? Does "git diff" support
>
> # git diff --exclude="foo.*.bar*"
No, I don't believe there is a way to do that. You would have to do
something like:
git diff $(git ls-files | grep -v whatever)
The usual concept of "exclusion" for git is not to track files at all
via the .gitignore mechanism. Are these files that have content you
really _want_ in the repository, but you just don't want to see them
when doing some diffs? Or are they files that could not be in the
repository at all?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 17:09 How to exclude files from "git diff" H.J. Lu
2010-01-05 6:45 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-01-05 14:20 ` H.J. Lu
2010-01-05 17:54 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-01-05 18:15 ` H.J. Lu
2010-01-05 18:31 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-01-05 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
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