ignoring changes matching a string in git diff

by

Try the following:

$ git diff > full_diff.txt
$ git diff -G "your pattern" > matching_diff.txt

You can then compare the two like so:

$ diff matching_diff.txt full_diff.txt

If all changes match the pattern, full_diff.txt and matching_diff.txt will be identical, and the last diff command will not return anything.

If there are changes that do not match the pattern, the last diff will highlight those.

You can combine all of the above steps and avoid having to create two extra files like so:

diff <(git diff -G "your pattern") <(git diff)  # works with other diff tools too

More Related Contents:

  1. Filtering a diff with a regular expression
  2. Extended regular expressions (ERE) for .gitignore
  3. How does the () and [] come into play with regex?
  4. Regular Expression for ” – ” and characters after [closed]
  5. How do (*SKIP) or (*F) work on regex?
  6. Regular Expression to find a string included between two characters while EXCLUDING the delimiters
  7. Regex to validate JSON
  8. Regex to match only letters
  9. How to calculate the number of occurrence of a given character in each row of a column of strings?
  10. How can I use a variable in the replacement side of the Perl substitution operator?
  11. Why doesn’t `\d` work in regular expressions in sed? [duplicate]
  12. Regular expression for youtube links
  13. How can I use ‘Not Like’ operator in MongoDB
  14. Negate characters in Regular Expression [closed]
  15. Zero-Length regexes and infinite matches?
  16. Regex pattern for HH:MM:SS time string
  17. sed join lines together
  18. Why is sed not recognizing \t as a tab?
  19. Symbol for any number of any characters in regex?
  20. Remove everything except regex match in Vim
  21. Complete word matching using grepl in R
  22. AngularJS – Remove leading and trailing whitespace from input-box using regex
  23. Insert linefeed in sed (Mac OS X)
  24. Difference between egrep and grep
  25. Regex optional group
  26. What is a Context Free Grammar?
  27. how to match a number which is less than or equal to 100?
  28. notepad++ Inverse Regex replace (all but string)
  29. ‘git status’ shows changed files, but ‘git diff’ doesn’t
  30. Regex for field that allows numbers and spaces

Leave a Comment