From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:33:30 GMT
Subject: Re: The way to make work with git a bit more easier.
Message-ID: <4D87459A.1040307@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3_tE6DdCQkS5ssqB9OBBNSvj5KO3WK=0Vj4YG@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2011 13:30:
> 2011/3/19 Alexey Homyakov <alexey.homyakov@gmail.com>:
>> Hi, guys, i'm enjoy to work with git, but think it's possibly to make
>> one of the operation more easier.
>> What do you mean about mark a parts of files which don't need to be
>> tracked by git once instead using interactive adding each time?
>> For example using statement in comments like this:
>>
>> ................
>> tracked part
>> ...............
>> //@git off
>> ...............
>> untracked part
>> ...............
>> //@git on
>> ................
>> track again
>> ................
> 
> That's interesting, provided that this is only enabled by command
> argument (i.e. never activated by default). Another option is to make
> "git add -p" only show chunks that match a pattern.

This can be done using a "clean" filter already. For example, for
tracking my global git configuration, I use

[filter "dotgitk"]
        clean = fgrep -v geometry

and specify

.gitk   filter=dotgitk

for the attributes.

Cheers,
Michael