Why does “hg status” show changed files when “hg diff -g” doesn't? (One parent)

Question

I have a repository where:

> hg st

shows that my working directory has some uncommitted changes, while

> hg diff


> h         


        

Answer 1

In these situations (it happens a lot to my team), I find that this command will fix about anything:

hg debugrebuilddirstate

or

hg debugrebuilddirstate -r tip

It's lightly documented in the help documentation, but basically I believe it clears out the "dirstate" file which caches information about working-directory files. The next time you hg stat it will refresh it from scratch.

One caveat: if you've added or removed files, that information will be lost when the dirstate is rebuilt.