I'm trying to exclude certain paths (those that contain "xmac/gen/") from diff output using .git/info/attributes (not .gitattributes). According to gitattributes(5) it supports patterns from gitignore(5). Example path that must be excluded: src/byucc/jhdl/CSRC/xmac/gen/and2_dp_g.xmac What I've tried but didn't work: xmac/gen/ -diff Following works but is not what I want: *.xmac -diff It seems I can only get it to work for file names but not for whole paths. What am I doing wrong or is this a bug ? git version 1.7.3.4 -- 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