git diff command to exclude certain file types while checking for trailing white space errors

Question

I want to check trailing white space errors between two git commits and the following commands works fine for me:

git diff ${prev_commit_ID}..${current_commit_ID} --check --relative

Please help me to modify this command to exclude some file types such as *.txt, *.pl, *.groovy etc.

ElpieKay · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-29 11:50:17Z

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git diff ${prev_commit_ID}..${current_commit_ID} --check --relative -- . ':!*.txt' ':!*.pl' ':*.groovy'

. means all the files under the directory.

:!*.txt exclude .txt files.

answered Sep 29, 2017 at 8:41

ElpieKay

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Maybe a little explanation would be useful, if you want to post a complete answer... you could also include a documentation link.