* git diff --git-ignore
@ 2021-09-19 23:50 Aaron Gray
2021-09-20 2:23 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Aaron Gray @ 2021-09-19 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Git Mailing List
Hi,
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 ;)
Regards,
Aaron
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Aaron Gray
Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language
Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.
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* Re: git diff --git-ignore
2021-09-19 23:50 git diff --git-ignore Aaron Gray
@ 2021-09-20 2:23 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Junio C Hamano @ 2021-09-20 2:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Aaron Gray; +Cc: Git Mailing List
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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