John Cheng <johnlich...@gmail.com> writes: > I wanted to know if git diff-files shows files that are not in the > index but are in the working tree.
At least in the original design of Git, that would fundamentally be impossible, as Git _only_ cares about paths that are in the index, so a new file won't be in the picture until it is added. Because a change is shown as "A"dded by the diff family of commands only when the old side lacks a path that appears in the new side, there is no way "diff-files" that compares the index and the working tree would see a path that is missing from the old (i.e. the index) side.
