diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -5067,7 +5067,8 @@
         # we need to compute clean and unknown to terse
         stat = repo.status(ctx1.node(), ctx2.node(), m,
                            'ignored' in show or 'i' in terse,
-                            True, True, opts.get('subrepos'))
+                            clean=True, unknown=True,
+                            listsubrepos=opts.get('subrepos'))
 
         stat = cmdutil.tersedir(stat, terse)
     else: