file-extension

Is there an option to restrict git diff to a given set of file extensions? Yes, if you ensure that git expands a glob rather than your shell then it will match at any level so something like this (quotes are important) should work fine. git diff -- '*.c' '*.h' sehe Either use your shell's globstar (which does a recursive search) 1 ,2 : shopt -s globstar git diff -- *.py **/*.py or use find: find -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 git diff -- Both of these are special-names and whitespace proof. Although you might want to filter for directories having the .py extension :) 1 I like to do git diff -

Since I started learning Objective-C and Cocoa, I've been wondering why they have chosen the extension .m for the implementation files - was it supposed to mean something, or was it just a random letter? splattne Today most people would refer to them as "method files", but "The .m extension originally stood for " m essages" when Objective-C was first introduced, referring to a central feature of Objective-C [...]" (from the book " Learn Objective-C on the Mac " by Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster, page 9) EDIT: To satisfy an itch I emailed Brad Cox , the inventor of Objective-C, about the

I want to do the following: Save numeric data in a CSV-like formatting, with a ".foo" extension; Associate the ".foo" file extension with some python script, which in turns opens the .foo file, reads its content, and plots something with a plotting library (matplotlib most probably). The use-case would be: double-click the file, and its respective plot pops up right away. I wonder how I should write a python script in order to do that. Besides, the windows "open with" dialog only allows me to choose executables (*.exe). If I choose "fooOpener.py", it doesn't work. This isn't really a

I can't find a complete list of mime-type mappings on the internet. I would like to have a list that refers a file extension to every existing mime type. The list of all mime-types can be found here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types but that resource doesn't include the file extension mapping. I googled a while and couldn't find a mapping list with all mime-types. Only lists with most common ones. In all lists I found for example this entry is missing: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document -> .docx Does someone know a resource where to find a

I want to get a MIME Content-Type from a given extension (preferably without accessing the physical file). I have seen some questions about this and the methods described to perform this can be resumed in: Use registry information . Use urlmon.dll's FindMimeFromData . Use IIS information . Roll your own MIME mapping function. Based on this table , for example. I've been using no.1 for some time but I realized that the information provided by the registry is not consistent and depends on the software installed on the machine. Some extensions, like .zip don't use to have a Content-Type specified

I often use JPEG images, and I have noticed that there are two very similar file extensions: .jpg , which my mobile's camera and the Preview application use, and .jpeg , with which Image Capture saves the images from scanning with my Canon MX455 printer. LaTeX doesn't seem to distinguish, as I gave it a .jpeg with the extension changed to .jpg and the result seems to be the same as if it had been a .jpg right from the start. I have wondered what the difference between the two is. I have come across this question , and will certainly read through it, though at the moment I'm slightly out of