Re: "git diff-files" command reports differences that don't exist

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2021, 22:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSRKJUhwMagx_h21pJbBiX9paA5cvDbudDNcRVea6g3Mg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa6rh9sph.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:50 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> This is totally expected behaviour.  In general when you are working
> with plumbing commands like diff-files and diff-index, you are
> expected to do "update-index --refresh" upfront.
>
> A plumbing command "git diff" has an equivalent of "update-index
> --refresh" built into it, but the plumbing commands are designed
> to be used in scripts, and in order to allow scripting programmers
> to avoid making unnecessary "update-index --refresh", e.g.

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    A porcelain command "git diff" has an equivalent...