From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:11:58 GMT
Subject: Re: git with custom diff for commits
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712172310090.9446@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpq1w9kaphg.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
> >
> >> I've tried to set up an external diff script that runs diff -I "<<sql 
> >> timestamp comment>>" that effectively ignores the timestamp. While 
> >> this works with "git diff", it seems when git commits, it still sees 
> >> the differences.
> >> 
> >> How do I properly teach git to ignore these types of differences?
> >
> > You might be interested in reading Documentation/gitattributes.txt, 
> > look for "diff driver".
> 
> It will show an empty output for "git diff", but I doubt thit will 
> change anything at commit time. Probably the "filter" thing on the same 
> file (also "man gitattributes") can help though.

Ah, right.  I completely missed that you were talking about git-commit, 
not git-log on git commits.

Yes, setting up a "clean" filter that removes the timestamps is probably 
the reasonable thing to do here.

Sorry for the noise,
Dscho