如何根据文件类型过滤 git diff？

Question

Is there an option to restrict git diff to show only a given set of file types?

By types I mean only regular files, symlinks, submodules, etc, as listed non exhaustively in the description of --diff-filter .

I am particularly interested in getting a diff containing only regular files.

Note that this question is not the same as How to filter git diff based on file extensions?

EXAMPLE : Suppose I have this output

git diff --raw HEAD^^ HEAD
:100644 100644 8e994d8 c79147d M        lib/esq.txt
:000000 120000 0000000 daee357 A        lib/file

where lib/file is a symlink.

Is there some option to pass to git diff to exclude the symlink from the output, or do I have to filter the output outside of Git by testing the modes?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are able to create a list of the files (with find, for example), then you could use xargs.... hopefully it should work:

find ./ whateverfilter | xargs git diff

That should work.