From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:53:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [HALF A PATCH] Teach the '--exclude' option to 'diff --no-index'
Message-ID: <20090220145331.GA3515@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <cf17659db8a4f7fe9d878984effcdd8d6417c862.1235138849u.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 03:12:28PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 	Michael wrote:
> 
> 	> I can't think offhand of a more portable tool that could replace 
> 	> "diff -r -x" here (suggestions, anyone?).
> 
> 	Maybe something like this?

Great. Using "git diff" was my first thought, too.

> 	Note: before it can be included in git.git, documentation and 
> 	tests have to be added; also, it might be a good idea to extend it 
> 	to the "non-no-index" case (maybe I can beat Peff in the number of 
> 	double negations one day...)

Maybe a config option "diff.denyNonIndexExclude = false"? *ducks*

But more seriously, how would a user expect this to interact with
.gitignore? I know gitignore is about ignoring untracked files, but I
can't help but feel the two have something in common. But maybe not. I'm
sick today and my brain is not working very well.

-Peff