From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:40:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git with custom diff for commits
Message-ID: <7vzlw7ybx7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <000001c841b5$89fcef00$762a14ac@na.acco.com>

"Gerald Gutierrez" <ggmlfs@gmail.com> writes:

> I ended up doing the following, which sounds similar to the above. Instead
> of doing mysqldump into data.sql, it goes into data.sql.2 which I compare
> with the checked in data.sql using "diff -I <timestamp RE>". If there are no
> differences, I delete data.sql.2. If there are differences, I move
> data.sql.2 into data.sql and check in. Perhaps not as elegant but certainly
> works.

Heh, that's essentially how automated html/man branches are managed ;-)