From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:51:49 GMT
Subject: Re: How to make git diff-* ignore some patterns?
Message-ID: <4B095E15.9040209@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <20091121180738.GA14919@atjola.homenet>

Am 21.11.2009 19:07 schrieb Björn Steinbrink:
> 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
> 

Thank you Björn and Michael,

Your suggestions were really helpful. I decided to use Björn's 'clean
filter' approach. It works great.

-- Dirk