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 my case something was broken with hg. (same permissions and hg diff -g shows nothing). I fixed issue with next way:

1. I cloned repository again in separate folder
2. I removed everything from this folder except .hg
3. I moved from old (broken) place everything except .hg to new place

So after this step i have repository which cloned with current version of mercurial + exactly same files.

After this steps i received same (empty) results for commands: hg st and hg diff -g