From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:14:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature idea: Ignore content
Message-ID: <4B56049C.6070705@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1001191504020.23165@ds9.cixit.se>

Am 19.01.2010 15:05 schrieb Peter Krefting:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra:
> 
>> Instead of moving that out to a separate file and ignoring that file, 
>> is it a good idea to add a feature to Git to allow ignoring content 
>> instead of whole files?
> 
> You should be able to do that by setting up a filter. Please see 
> gitattributes(5) for more information (search for "filter").
> 

Hi Ramkumar,

please have a look at this thread:
http://marc.info/?t=125882165900001&r=1&w=2
especially Björn's suggestion to use a 'clean filter'. It worked fine
for me with a similar problem: I wanted Git to ignore a certain pattern
in my files.

HTH,
Dirk