Hi, On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Gerald Gutierrez wrote: > I do a nightly mysqldump of a database and check it into a git > repository. mysqldump generates a timestamp as part of that output which > is causing git to think that the file changes every night when it really > doesn't. The timestamp is simply in an SQL comment. > > So what I'd like to do is teach git to ignore that particular SQL > timestamp comment. I've tried to set up an external diff script that > runs diff -I "<<sql timestamp comment>>" that effectively ignores the > timestamp. While this works with "git diff", it seems when git commits, > it still sees the differences. > > How do I properly teach git to ignore these types of differences? You might be interested in reading Documentation/gitattributes.txt, look for "diff driver". Hth, Dscho - 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
