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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> we already have a distinction between what is called from scripts vs from 
> humans: plumbing vs porcelain.  So you can set the defaults for porcelain as 
> much as you want, but please leave plumbing alone.

May we consider "git diff" Porcelain and "git diff-{files,index,tree}" plumbing?