I am trying to produce a list of the files that were changed in a specific commit. The problem is, that every file has the version number in a comment at the top of the file - and since this commit introduces a new version, that means that every file has changed.
I don't care about the changed comments, so I would like to have git diff ignore all lines that match ^\s*\*.*$, as these are all comments (part of /* */).
I cannot find any way to tell git diff to ignore specific lines.
I have already tried setting a textconv attribute to cause Git to pass the files to sed before diffing them, so that sed can strip out the offending lines - the problem with this, is that git diff --name-status does not actually diff the files, just compares the hashes, and of course all the hashes have changed.
Is there a way to do this?
git diff -G <regex>
And specify a regular expression that does not match your version number line.