On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 11:51:16AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I don't think there's a plumbing command which works for diffing the > > working tree directly to a git tree. In the long run, it might be a good > > idea to remedy that. > > I do not think that one is doing anything different from "git > diff-index --name-only -z HEAD". > [...] > Yeah, it looks like "add -u" to me, too. Perhaps the script was old > enough that it didn't exist back then? I dunno. Hmm, nope. It _was_ "git add -u" at one point and switched. See 7aa5d43cc (stash: Don't overwrite files that have gone from the index, 2010-04-18). I think you are right that diff-index could work, though. I always forget that without "--cached", diff-index looks at the working tree files. -Peff