'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 stumbled upon this problem again. But this time it occurred for a different reason. I had copied files into the repo to overwrite the previous versions. Now I can see the files are modified but diff doesn't return the diffs.

For example, I have a mainpage.xaml file. In File Explorer I pasted a new mainpage.xaml file over the one in my current repo. I did the work on another machine and just pasted the file here.

The file shows modified, but when I run git diff, it will not show the changes. It's probably because the fileinfo on the file has changed and git knows that it isn't really the same file. Interesting.

You can see that when I run diff on the file it shows nothing, just returns the prompt.