From: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:33:16 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I restrict git-diff to a specific set of directories?
Message-ID: <1231893196.31432.7.camel@rotwang.fnordora.org>
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.