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Re: git diff - howto exclude dir from diff?

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Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
Date
Sep 6, 2010, 13:25 UTC
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On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 13:13 +0200, Jan III Sobieski wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if it's possible to exclude a dir from the diff. I want to
> get some diffstats from Linux tree
>

It's not possible to exclude with git diff/grep, but you can do somtehing like that :

find . -type f ! -path "./drivers/staging/*" | xargs git diff v2.6.35..v2.6.36-rc3 --stat

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> git diff v2.6.35..v2.6.36-rc3 --stat
> 
> but without drivers/staging/ dir. Is it possible?
> 
> Regards,
> Jan
>
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  1. Jan III SobieskiSep 6, 2010
  2. Sylvain RabotSep 6, 2010

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