Re: Excluding files from git-diff

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Oct 17, 2008, 15:18 UTC
Message-ID: <48F8ACC2.1010903@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081017145313.GA23471@eriks>

Erik Hahn venit, vidit, dixit 17.10.2008 16:53:

> I'm currently working on a script whose developer does not use
> git. Hence, when I mail him the patch, I don't want to include the
> .gitignore file. Is it possible to exclude a file from git-diff (except
> not adding it to git, of course?)

Am I right in assuming that by "script" you mean a manuscript consisting of several files, rather than a single script (programme in scripting language)? In any case:

git diff commit1 commit2 file

gives you the diff for "file" between those commits, so if you're really interested in one file that's the way to go; you can also specify more than one file here.

On the other hand, your .gitignore probably doesn't change that often, so that it shouldn't show up in the diff after that anyways. Or put it in .git/info/excludes.

Cheers, Michael