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Is there a way to exclude some file from a diff?

Subject: Is there a way to exclude some file from a diff?

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Ping Yin· Jan 16, 2009, 07:04 UTC · lore

Something similar to

git diff --exclude=".gitignore" A..B

There are so many directories, so using "git diff path1 path2" is inapposite.

Ping Yin

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