There is nothing changed, but eclipse egit marks the file as changed

Question

I\'m using eclipse egit with github. I found something strange that I didn\'t change anything, but egit marked the file as "changed". See the images:

Answer 1

As a follow up, as I just ran into the same issue, another reason for EGit detecting all files as changed is a POSIX file permission problem at least when used together with Cygwin's git.

The following will fix that; however keep in mind that this also means that they are ignored then:

$ git config core.filemode false

Answer 2

i had the same issue and nothing of the proposed solutions did work. i hat the autocrlf feature turned off, the latest version of egit and git installed. the line endings of the repository and local files were both matching.

the problem was caused by an entry in the .gitattributes:

* text=auto eol=lf

i could therefore:

• remove the attribute
• commit the changes

but what also did work was to go to command line and type

git reset --hard

and then refresh in eclipse.