On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:09:15AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote: > >> I have some bookkeeping files in my git repository. How do I >> exclude them from "git diff"? Does "git diff" support >> >> # git diff --exclude="foo.*.bar*" > > No, I don't believe there is a way to do that. You would have to do > something like: > > git diff $(git ls-files | grep -v whatever) > > The usual concept of "exclusion" for git is not to track files at all > via the .gitignore mechanism. Are these files that have content you > really _want_ in the repository, but you just don't want to see them > when doing some diffs? Or are they files that could not be in the > repository at all? Yes, I want those files in repository. They are for my personal use only. Thanks. -- H.J. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html