Can git ignore a specific line?
git, gitx
Solution
If your file is of a specific type, you can declare a content filter driver, that you can declare in a `.gitattributes` file (as presented in the "Keyword expansion" of "Git Attributes"):
*.yourType filter=yourFilterName
(you can even set that filter for a specific file, if you want)
Implement:
`yourFilterName.smudge` (triggered on `git checkout`) and
git config --global filter.yourFilterName.smudge 'sed "s/isPhoneGap = .*/isPhoneGap = true/"'
`yourFilterName.clean` (triggered on `git add`)
git config --global filter.yourFilterName.clean 'sed "s/isPhoneGap = .*/isPhoneGap = false/"'
Your file would appear unchanged on `git status`, yet its checked out version would have the right value for `isPhoneGap`.
Note: in the comments, ohaal and Roald suggest to isolate the `sed` calls in a separate `helper.sh` script:
sed "s/isPhoneGap = .*/isPhoneGap = true/" "$@"
Problem
I'm using git to sync to phonegap while testing on the phone's native browser. As such I have the following line: ``` var isPhoneGap = false; ``` Obviously I change this when building, but is there any way I can set up git to ignore this one line or do I have to go and put it in its own file and ignore it that way? I'm using Gitx and the terminal on OSX 10.6.