git diff ignoring certain files

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git diff ignoring certain files

What is this?

Sometimes you want to ignore certain files when you run git diff, but you still want to check them in, which means you can't capitalize on .gitignore.

This guide is here to help.

How to set it up?

Execute the following once (assuming you are using a mac, otherwise, correct the path to your true):

git config diff.nodiff.command /usr/bin/true

optionally add --global for all repos.

Every time you want to ignore a new file/file regex:

Add a new line to your .git/info/attributes (create one if there ain't one):

{file_regex} diff=nodiff

Example: my .git/info/attributes for web SDK repo

README.md diff=nodiff
TITANIUM_GUIDE.md diff=nodiff
WEB_GUIDE.md diff=nodiff
dist/** diff=nodiff
docs/0_notice.md diff=nodiff
src/titanium/BranchSDK/android/src/io/branch/sdk/BranchSDKModule.java diff=nodiff
src/titanium/BranchSDK/iphone/Classes/IoBranchSdkModule.m diff=nodiff
test/branch-deps.js diff=nodiff

beautiful. we should add this to the wiki

not work for git version 2.7.4
ubuntu16.04 tls

This approach is not working for me either on git version git version 2.15.2 (Apple Git-101.1)