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Subject: Re: "git diff-files" command reports differences that don't exist
To:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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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...

?