Git noob here. Having a hard time figuring out why git shows some files changed, while Eclipse EGit does not.
When I use EGit within Eclipse and view a project, it shows no files changed. There is no little caret next to each file. When I use Git for Windows, or go to the command line and type “git status”, it shows that all the files have been modified. When I type “git diff” it shows two different versions of a file, first red, then green, and there appears to be some whitespace differences, but I can’t be sure, and I can’t figure out how the whitespace changed in every file in the project. (Something here doesn’t add up.) “git diff -w” returns nothing. “git config –global apply.whitespace nowarn” does nothing.
I might be having a basic conceptual problem with git.
In any case, why do EGit and the git command line show different results?
It turns out that git is playing games with newlines. It’s inexplicable. Bottom line: EGit and the git command line cannot both be used on a Windows box. To get consistency, you have to use one or the other.