Exclude a directory from git diff

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Based on this answer you can also use:

git diff previous_release..current_release -- . ':!spec'

This is a newish git feature which allows excluding certain paths. It should be more reliable than various shell oneliners.

I’m posting this here because this question is still the #1 hit for “git diff exclude path”.

Since Git 2.13 (Q2 2017), you can replace ! with ^. The latter doesn’t need quotes. So you can write it as:

git diff previous_release..current_release -- . :^spec

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