Re: git repository modified after migration

> I migrated a 11G git repository converted from svn on a host with
> Debian 8.2, reiserfs, git 2.1.4 to a host with Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS,
> xfs, git 2.6.4. After the migration, `git status` showing a good
> amount of files modified.
> 
> I did the transfer with
> 1) `rsync -azP`, after noticing the modified files I ran `rsync -avH
> --delete` but it did not correct the problem
> 2) tar zcf, then on the destination download the tar.gz (served by
> nginx) with wget
> 
> Both had the same result. But the original repository was still clean.
> 
> I did some comparison between "modified" and original files
> a) same hash (md5sum, shasum)
> b) same permission (-rw-r--r-- 1 )
> c) same encoding and line termination (UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text,
> with CRLF line terminators)
> d) no git attributes for either
> 
> 
> On the destination host, I ran `git checkout` on each of those
> modified files. After one pass I got less modified files. Repeating
> `git checkout` on remaining files for a few more times, finally I got
> a clean repository on the destination host.
> 
> What could have caused git to consider those files as modified? And
> why multiple `git checkout` again the same file was necessary?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Yang