How to exclude files from "git diff"

From: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2009, 17:09 UTC
Message-ID: <6dc9ffc80912180909q2e9cbe30r7c802a2152c5954@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have some bookkeeping files in my git repository. How do I exclude them from "git diff"? Does "git diff" support

# git diff --exclude="foo.*.bar*"

Please CC me since I am not on the git mailing list.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.

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