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Re: Odd Difference Between Windows Git and Standard Git

From
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
May 20, 2016, 13:19 UTC
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On 20.05.16 03:48, Jon Forrest wrote:
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> I'm running Git version 2.8.2 built from source on Ubuntu 16.04.
> I'm using a repository that's stored on Dropbox. I'm the only person
> accessing this repo. Everything works great.
> 
> For reasons unrelated to Git, I decided to try Git for Windows,
> so I installed "git version 2.8.2.windows.1" on Windows 10.
> When I run 'git status' on Ubuntu the list I see is exactly what
> I expect. However, when I run 'git status' on the
> same Dropbox repo on Windows, I see what I expect plus I'm told
> that every .pdf file and some .png files are modified.
To bring at least a little light into the story:

What does git diff say ?

What does git config -l | grep core say ?

And what does git ls-files --eol say?

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