From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail•com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git diff --git-ignore
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:23:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4kagdlxx.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANkmNDf5KVn7Afj9xtvMGC0Ua7G6O3EOjBRtAfBOKOnaYgqVXA@mail.gmail.com> (Aaron Gray's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:50:56 +0100")
Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail•com> writes:
> Is it possible to add a --git-ignore flag to git diff so I only see
> the diffs for what I really want to be looking at, and not what I
> don't ;)
How does your --git-ignore option exactly guess differences for
which paths to show and which paths to exclude? How do you tell the
"git diff --git-ignore" command which paths are what you really want
to be looking at?
If it is by magic, good luck writing such a feature ;-)
If it is like "I only am interested in changes in src/ directory and
the top-level Makefile", then perhaps using pathspec is what you
want. E.g.
$ git diff -- src/ Makefile
$ git diff --cached -- src/ Makefile
$ git diff master topic -- src/ Makefile
$ git diff master...topic -- src/ Makefile
Modern Git even allows you to include negative elements to the
pathspec, e.g.
$ git diff src/ ':(exclude)*.h'
would tell us "show only changes in the src/ directory, but do not
bother with changes to the dot-h files".
HTH
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2021-09-19 23:50 git diff --git-ignore Aaron Gray
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