On 2010-04-12, Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was surprised to not find an option to exclude file from git diff/grep > outputs like -x for diff or --exclude for grep. It's too bad because it > can be really useful. Yeah, me too, but probably because I never needed it ;) Anyway, there were some discussions on this before [1]. I thin a viable workaround is using ls-files and grep. Quick example: git diff -- $(git ls-files | grep -Ev "(^Documentation|^compat/mingw.c)") would show everything except the whole Documentation subtree and mingw.c from compat. Now, you might even whip that into your very own shellscript or use a git alias (dirty): [alias] ediff = "!sh -c 'git diff -- $(git ls-files | grep -Ev $0)'" And call it with git ediff "(Documentation|compat/mingw.c)" Greetings, Jojo [1] - http://lists-archives.org/git/708604-how-to-exclude-files-from-git-diff.html -- Johannes Gilger <heipei@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://heipei.net GPG-Key: 0xD47A7FFC GPG-Fingerprint: 5441 D425 6D4A BD33 B580 618C 3CDC C4D0 D47A 7FFC -- 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