'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've just run in a similar issue. git diff file showed nothing because I added file to the Git index with some part of its name in uppercase: GeoJSONContainer.js.

Afterwards, I've renamed it to GeoJsonContainer.js and changes stopped being tracked. git diff GeoJsonContainer.js was showing nothing. I had to remove the file from the index with a force flag, and add the file again:

git rm -f GeoJSONContainer.js
git add GeoJSONContainer.js