Re: [HALF A PATCH] Teach the '--exclude' option to 'diff --no-index'

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote:
> > 
> > > But more seriously, how would a user expect this to interact with 
> > > .gitignore? I know gitignore is about ignoring untracked files, but I 
> > > can't help but feel the two have something in common. But maybe not. I'm 
> > > sick today and my brain is not working very well.
> > 
> > I think that the -x option with regular (not --no-index) diff would be 
> > a little different.  .gitignore is for "git add" time, while "git diff" 
> > happily ignores .gitignore.
> > 
> > Besides, the -x option only works on the basenames (as I implemented it; 
> > no idea if GNU diff works the same way, but from Michael's patch it looks 
> > like it does).
> 
> Info: (diff.info.gz)diff Options
> 
> `-x PATTERN'
> `--exclude=PATTERN'
>      When comparing directories, ignore files and subdirectories whose
>      basenames match PATTERN.  *Note Comparing Directories::.