Problem

I want to do a git diff, but I need some paths to be ignored.

e.g. git diff --name-only

Output:

some_dir/aaa
some_dir/bbb
some_dir/ignore_me/aaa
some_dir/ccc
some_dir/ddd

What I want:

some_dir/aaa
some_dir/bbb
some_dir/ccc
some_dir/ddd

Solution

Git pathspecs!

“After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run through all exclude pathspecs (magic signature: ! or its synonym ^). If it matches, the path is ignored.”

git diff --name-only -- '!**/ignore_me/*'