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Two consecutive clones of a remote produces different files

From
MJMorten W. J. <morten@winkler.dk>
Date
Jul 15, 2016, 08:45 UTC
Message-ID
<2183637.OVprKRVBmt@t430>
Hi All.
I have experienced something weird today.

I have a repository hosted on a GitLab server on my LAN and when I clone that repository to a linux box and a windows box I get different files!

It is very hard to explain in words, so I have recorded my desktop while reproducing it, which I can do consistently:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5234017/git-clone-produces-different-results.ogv

I have no ideas what is wrong or why it behaves the way it does, but I am actually pretty scared now. The repository has been updated from as a subtree from another repository, but that should not create such behavior?

Can anybody give me some hints on what may be wrong and how I might get identical clones again?

Cheers,
    Morten
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