How to make 'git diff' ignore comments

Question

I am trying to produce a list of the files that were changed in a specific commit. The problem is, that every file has the version number in a comment at the top of the file

Answer 1

Perhaps a Bash script like this:

#!/bin/bash
git diff --name-only "$@" | while read FPATH ; do
    LINES_COUNT=`git diff --textconv "$FPATH" "$@" | sed '/^[1-]\s\+[1-]\s\+.*/d' | wc -l`
    if [ $LINES_COUNT -gt 0 ] ; then
        echo -e "$LINES_COUNT\t$FPATH"
    fi
done | sort -n