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Re: Excluding files from git-diff

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 18, 2008, 16:14 UTC
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<20081018161424.GC20185@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:08:55PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> The problem with this is that it won't show files that aren't there  
> anymore but have been previously; in general, for that to work (also with

Yes, you're right. You really do want to be telling git not "here is the list of files I care about" but "I really care about anything _except_ this set".

And I don't think that is currently possible, so a patch would be necessary (and I think is justified, since there is no other way to do it).

The most flexible thing would be the ability to say "I want these paths (or all paths), and exclude these paths" (sort of like we already do for commits). But defining a good command-line syntax for that would probably be painful, and I really think the only sane use case is "I want all paths except for these". In which case your "--invert-match" seems like a good route.

-Peff
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  1. Erik HahnOct 17, 2008
  2. Raphael ZimmererOct 17, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinOct 17, 2008
  4. Michael J GruberOct 17, 2008
  5. Christian JaegerOct 17, 2008
  6. Eric RaibleOct 17, 2008
  7. Christian JaegerOct 18, 2008
  8. Jeff KingOct 18, 2008
  9. Christian JaegerOct 18, 2008
  10. Jeff KingOct 18, 2008
  11. Jeff KingOct 18, 2008
  12. Anders MelchiorsenOct 17, 2008

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