From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:11:13 GMT
Subject: Re: gitattributes don't work
Message-ID: <20110103011113.GF30506@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <ifr610$3kl$1@dough.gmane.org>

Marcin Wiśnicki wrote:

> I'm trying to exclude certain paths (those that contain "xmac/gen/") from 
> diff output using .git/info/attributes (not .gitattributes).

Tricky.  Have you tried

 xmac?gen? -diff

?  You might also be interested in the nd/struct-pathspec branch:

 git clone git://repo.or.cz/git.git
 cd git
 git log --grep=nd/struct-pathspec

for some work and explanation on patterns used to specify paths.

Regards,
Jonathan