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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2021, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1rct9qwh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSRKJUhwMagx_h21pJbBiX9paA5cvDbudDNcRVea6g3Mg@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:50 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Did you mean:
>
>     A porcelain command "git diff" has an equivalent...

Yes.