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which git binary does EGit use [message #1767769] Tue, 11 July 2017 00:15 Go to next message
Greg Silverman is currently offline Greg SilvermanFriend
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I have my workspace in a cygwin directory. I sometimes use git, version 2.12.3, from the command line and sometimes from within eclipse. In eclipse, git staging shows many files as modified, even though I have not modified them. From the command line, git does not show them as modified.

Why is this happening? Is EGit using a git binary that is incompatible with the one in cygwin?

The two attached png files show the difference in what EGit and git show for the working directory and staging.

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Re: which git binary does EGit use [message #1767799 is a reply to message #1767769] Tue, 11 July 2017 08:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Christian Halstrick is currently offline Christian HalstrickFriend
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EGit is not calling a git binary, it is using JGit. Such problems, that JGit on Windows thinks more files are modified than native git have to seen before. It is often a line-ending problem. JGit thinks that the files on disk differ from the files in the index only because they have different line-endings. The files on disk often have the windows cr-lf line endings, while the files in the index have unix style lf line endings. Just to prove that you could set core.autocrlf to false in your repos config, delete all the files in the worktree and checkout your branch again (with EGit). Is it still showing that many differences? That's not the solution, just trying to prove that my assumption is right.

Ciao
Chris

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Re: which git binary does EGit use [message #1767800 is a reply to message #1767769] Tue, 11 July 2017 08:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Christian Halstrick is currently offline Christian HalstrickFriend
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EGit is not calling a git binary, it is using JGit. Such problems, that JGit on Windows thinks more files are modified than native git have to seen before. It is often a line-ending problem. JGit thinks that the files on disk differ from the files in the index only because they have different line-endings. The files on disk often have the windows cr-lf line endings, while the files in the index have unix style lf line endings. Just to prove that you could set core.autocrlf to false in your repos config, delete all the files in the worktree and checkout your branch again (with EGit). Is it still showing that many differences? That's not the solution, just trying to prove that my assumption is right.

Ciao
Chris

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Re: which git binary does EGit use [message #1767904 is a reply to message #1767800] Wed, 12 July 2017 05:57 Go to previous message
Thomas Wolf is currently offline Thomas WolfFriend
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Another possible cause of such differences on Windows are executable bits; so check those. If that's the cause, set core.filemode to false in the git config.

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