Re: How to exclude files from "git diff"

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 5, 2010, 18:31 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf1001051031j6723dc14v8d43944e3b8baa90@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6dc9ffc81001051015x3bebc994r3d475bdb59e12d39@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/6/10, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:20 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Yes, I want those files in repository. They are for my personal use only.
>  >
>  > If you modified some file locally and do not want to see and commit
>  > those modifications, you may want to use:
>  >
>  > git update-index --assume-unchanged foo
>  >
>
>
> I added those files into my repository for bookkeeping purpose. It
>  shouldn't go out at all.

That could be a way to simulate git diff --exclude="foo*.bar*":

git ls-files -- 'foo*bar*'|xargs git update-index --assume-unchanged git diff git ls-files -- 'foo*bar*'|xargs git update-index --no-assume-unchanged

assume that you don't use assume-unchanged for any other purposes

-- 
Duy