How to make git-diff and git log ignore new and deleted files?

Question

Sometimes there\'s a couple of changed files together with some new, deleted and/or renamed files. When doing git diff or git-log I\'d like to omit the

Answer 1

UPDATE: The accepted answer by Charles Bailey is the correct one; the desired functionality is already built into git.

I'll leave this answer here since it might provide ideas for things that aren't built into git.

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git diff shows new and deleted files by comparing them to /dev/null. It shouldn't be too difficult to write something (I'd use Perl myself) that looks for /dev/null and filters out the following lines up to the next diff. Then git diff ... | the-filter.

Renamed files are a different matter; I don't (yet) have a good answer to that.