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without looking at the docs that makes sense to me intuitively. `pulumi refresh` only updates your state file to match the actual environment, i.e. it's for resolving configuration drift. `pulumi up` is for updating the environment based on pulumi configuration. my assumption is that `pulumi up` --refresh is the same as `pulumi up` but with a `pulumi refresh` first