Exclude files from git diff-tree

Question

I execute command:

git diff-tree --diff-filter=ACMR --no-commit-id --name-only -r $COMMIT^1.. --

from the result I create zip archive.

How can I exclude specific files from the result generated by the above command ?

Answer 1

I'm not sure you can get diff-tree to do that for you unless you can specify paths that you are interested in explicitly after the --.

But you can post-process that list with grep/sed/awk/etc. at the very least.

Actually, you might be able to use zip's -x argument to do the exclusions for you directly in the zipping step as well.