'git status' shows changed files, but 'git diff' doesn't

Question

I\'ve had a look at all similar questions. However, I\'ve double checked and something strange is definitely happening.

On one server (Solaris with Git 1.8.1) I clon

Answer 1

For me, it had something to do with file permissions. Someone with Mac/Linux on my project seems to commit some files with non-default permissions which my Windows git client failed to reproduce. Solution for me was to tell git to ignore file permissions:

git config core.fileMode false

Other insight: How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?