'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

I had a similar problem: git diff would show differences, but git diff would not. It turned out that I set LESS to a string including -F (--quit-if-one-screen). Removing that flag solved the problem.