somehow unstaged changes section doesn't show up at all

[wdkrnls]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or just some feature I acidently stumbled on to, but somehow magit doesn't show the unstaged changes section at all. Yet, when I examine git status I see quite a few entries. I don't see any errors. Did I trigger a feature to hide a section? All I see is untracked files, staged changes, and unmerged into in the main magit interface. I am using Magit 3.3.0 with Emacs 27.2 and git 2.35.1.

[tarsius]

Did you try in another repository?
Did you check if there is an error/warning in the *Messages* buffer?
Did you try to reproduce with emacs -Q (see https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Debugging-Tools.html)?

The relevant function is magit-insert-unstaged-changes. Try adding debug statements to that, among other things to find out whether it is being called at all.

[tarsius]

Try git update-index --no-assume-unchanged.

If that doesn't help, also (in a shell) stage those changes and then unstage them again?

[wdkrnls]

The git update-index command didn't do anything, but your latter suggestion helped reveal to me that git was barfing on a missing git extension: git-crypt. This was configured to watch over a few of the files with unstaged changes. I installed that extension and now I see the staged changes section in Magit again.

[tarsius]

I have added M-x magit-toggle-git-debug to make it easier to debug such issues.

[wdkrnls]

I did check for errors/warnings in the Messages buffer. There weren't any. I also ran shell command produced by M-x magit-emacs-Q-command against the same repository. The resulting Emacs Magit instance showed the same behavior against the repository I tested and reported above. I tried another couple of repositories, and did see unstaged changes show up in them: exactly the changes the git shell command shows there to be. So, it seems like Magit is getting confused about this one repository in particular. I so no differences in Magit behavior between my Emacs config and the Magit "emacs -Q" config.

[lafrenierejm]

I was encountering the same behavior. The unstaged section wasn't being displayed in one repo but was everywhere else. Enabling magit-toggle-git-debug and then checking the *messages* buffer showed what my specific issue was; I had a git filter configured to use git-crypt but didn't have git-crypt installed locally.