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diff: ignoring changes in certain subdirectories

Subject: diff: ignoring changes in certain subdirectories

## tl;dr

2 messages between Nov 25, 2009 and Nov 25, 2009.

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Zoltán Füzesi· Nov 25, 2009, 13:27 UTC · lore

Hi All, I would like to check changes between branch 'A' and 'B', ignoring subdirectory 'xyz'. Is there a simple way?

Thx, Zé

Johannes Schindelin· Nov 25, 2009, 13:40 UTC · re: Zoltán Füzesi · lore

Re: diff: ignoring changes in certain subdirectories

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Zoltán Füzesi wrote:

> Hi All, I would like to check changes between branch 'A' and 'B', 
> ignoring subdirectory 'xyz'. Is there a simple way?

I implement half of this for --no-index some time ago:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110846

Feel free to take it to completion, Dscho

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