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From: Michael Brown <michael.brown@discourse.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git diff-files" command reports differences that don't exist
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 17:20:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3774f98-d2aa-3ae2-2aa5-c80339684c50@discourse.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa6rh9sph.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 2021-03-05 4:49 p.m., Junio C Hamano 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.
Thanks. I wondered if since it was a plumbing command there might have
been something I was missing but didn't know where to look.

Cheers.

-- 
Michael Brown
Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
https://www.discourse.org/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-05 22:21 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
2021-03-05 22:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-05 22:20   ` Michael Brown [this message]

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