Re: How to exclude files from "git diff"
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:09:15AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> 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*"
>
> No, I don't believe there is a way to do that. You would have to do
> something like:
>
> git diff $(git ls-files | grep -v whatever)
>
> The usual concept of "exclusion" for git is not to track files at all
> via the .gitignore mechanism. Are these files that have content you
> really _want_ in the repository, but you just don't want to see them
> when doing some diffs? Or are they files that could not be in the
> repository at all?
Yes, I want those files in repository. They are for my personal use only.
Thanks.
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H.J.