RE: git with custom diff for commits

From: Gerald Gutierrez <ggmlfs@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <000001c841b5$89fcef00$762a14ac@na.acco.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vodco1him.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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> 
> So my updated suggestion would be:
> 
>  - Keep a checkout of that mysql dump;
> 
>  - Make the dump procedure to dump to that checkout area;
> 
>  - Run "git diff HEAD", perhaps with the external diff that 
> filters out
>    the cruft as suggested in the thread, and run "git checkout $path"
>    for paths that had only meaningless changes;
> 
>  - Run "git commit" if the above step did not nuke all changes.
>

I ended up doing the following, which sounds similar to the above. Instead of doing mysqldump into data.sql, it goes into data.sql.2 which I compare with the checked in data.sql using "diff -I <timestamp RE>". If there are no differences, I delete data.sql.2. If there are differences, I move data.sql.2 into data.sql and check in. Perhaps not as elegant but certainly works.

Gerald.