From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:19:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] submodule groups (once again)
Message-ID: <xmqqshy8c8s2.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1461703833-10350-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> git diff is supposed to view the differences between "what would I
> get after checkout" (i.e. what is in the index run through smudge filters)
> compared to the actual worktree.

I do not think it affects your conclusion, but the above is wrong.
"git diff" is a preview of what you would add (i.e. what will be in
the index after passing working tree contents via the clean filter)
relative to what is actually in the index.