Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > 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". It will show an empty output for "git diff", but I doubt thit will change anything at commit time. Probably the "filter" thing on the same file (also "man gitattributes") can help though. -- Matthieu - 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
