Re: how do I ignore a directory for diff
Hello John,
Thanks for the answer. I am also using some GUI client (smartgit). Is there any way to make this part of the repo attributes / configuration so that my git GUI would use it ?
Lionel.
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> Le 5 avr. 2015 à 14:17, John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> a écrit :
>
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 11:31:54AM +0000, LongChair . wrote:
>> I have been looking into ignoring a subdirectory of my tree for
>> diffing with upstream. I'll explain the situation below :
>>
>> My tree is a fork of an upstream repo. There is a specific directory
>> in my tree lets call it foo/bar that i would like to ignore for diff.
>> This directory includes only files that i added to my repo and is
>> therefore irrelevant for diffing (i know all files in there have been
>> added and are not in upstream). Having there in the diff is just
>> making a lot of files to appear and that is confusing to see what is
>> changed from upstream.
>>
>> I have read the docs and found a way mentioning that i should add a
>> line to .gitattributes with : foo/bar/* -diff
>>
>> But this still lists the files in there when i'm diffing.
>>
>> Is there any way to achieve this ? i cant find any clear explanation
>> in the docs.
>
> Since git-diff takes a pathspec you can use the exclude magic to exclude
> certain directories like this:
>
> git diff upstream -- ':(top)' ':(exclude)foo/bar'
>
> or equivalently:
>
> git diff upstream -- :/ ':!foo/bar'
>
> The documentation for the pathspec syntax is in git-glossary(7).