From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:07:38 GMT
Subject: Re: How to make git diff-* ignore some patterns?
Message-ID: <20091121180738.GA14919@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <4B0817EE.1040000@dirk.my1.cc>

On 2009.11.21 17:40:14 +0100, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
> is there a way to tell "git diff-index" to ignore some special
> patterns, such that /^-- Dump completed on .*$/ is NOT recognized as
> a difference and "git diff-index" returns 0 if that's the only
> difference?

If you don't mind losing that line, you could use a clean filter via
.gitattributes:

echo '*.sql filter=mysql_dump' >> .gitattributes
git config filter.mysql_dump.clean "sed -e '/^-- Dump completed on .*$/d'"

That way, git will filter all *.sql paths through that sed command
before storing them as blobs, dropping that "Dump completed" line from
the data stored in the repo.

Björn