From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Michael Brown <michael.brown@discourse.org>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git diff-files" command reports differences that don't exist
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 17:18:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSRKJUhwMagx_h21pJbBiX9paA5cvDbudDNcRVea6g3Mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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:
> 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...
?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-05 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-05 19:28 "git diff-files" command reports differences that don't exist Michael Brown
2021-03-05 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-05 22:18 ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2021-03-05 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-05 22:20 ` Michael Brown
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