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It's important to note that `git diff` by itself doesn't show all changes made since your last commit -- only changes that are still unstaged.
This can be confusing, because if you've staged all of your changes, `git diff` will give you no output.
If you've staged all of your changes, `git diff` will give you no output.

For another example, if you stage the `CONTRIBUTING.md` file and then edit it, you can use `git diff` to see the changes in the file that are staged and the changes that are unstaged.
If our environment looks like this:
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