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

If you have ignorews or ignoreblanklines set in .hgrc then hg status will show it as changed but hg diff won't (assuming the changes are only whitespace of course).