Michał Kępień <michal@xxxxxxx> writes: > This patch series adds a new diff option that enables ignoring changes > whose all lines (changed, removed, and added) match a given regular > expression. This is similar to the -I option in standalone diff > utilities and can be used e.g. to look for unrelated changes in commits > containing a large number of automatically applied modifications (e.g. a > tree-wide string replacement). The difference between -G/-S and the new > -I option is that the latter filters output on a per-change basis. I am uncomfortably excited to see a change to quite a low-level code of the diff machinery. It does not happen every day ;-)
