Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I'll reword the log message while queuing. It was super surprising to me to hear that there was something "git diff" did that three "git diff-*" plumbing brothers couldn't do at the basic "what to compare with what" level, as I wrote all four ;-)