From: Timur Tabi Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:10:04 GMT Subject: Can I exclude .gitmodules (or any file) from git-format-patch? Message-ID: Is there a way I can get git-format-patch to ignore specific files? Specifically, I want it to ignore .gitmodules. This file is changed whenever a submodule is added or removed, but I don't want git format-patch to pick it up. I already specify --ignore-submodules, so I was expecting format-patch to ignore *everything* related to sobmodules. Perhaps --ignore-submodules should also ignore any changes to .gitmodules? (Why is .gitmodules not in the .git directory, anyway?) -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale