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

I just deleted the files that showed up as modified (make a backup if needed) which caused all the files to show up with an ! next to it when I ran

hg st

After that I ran the following command to revert the files (which were already checked in):

hg revert --all --no-backup

and that fixed the problem