# diff: ignoring changes in certain subdirectories

2 messages from 2009-11-25 to 2009-11-25. Participants: Zoltán Füzesi, Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21748

## Zoltán Füzesi, 2009-11-25 13:27

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

Thx, Zé

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## Johannes Schindelin, 2009-11-25 13:40

Subject: Re: diff: ignoring changes in certain subdirectories
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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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