`git` shows changed files after cloning, without any other actions
git clone git@github.com:erocarrera/pydot ( 35a8d858b ) in a Debian with git config core.autocrlf input shows: modified: test/graphs/b545.dot modified: test/graphs/b993.dot modified: test/graphs/cairo.dot These files have CRLF line endings, for example: $ file test/graphs/cairo.dot test/graphs/cairo.dot: UTF-8 Unicode text, with CRLF line terminators The .gitattributes file contains : *.py eol=lf *.dot eol=lf *.txt eol=lf *.md eol=lf *.yml eol=lf *.png binary *.ps binary Changing core.autocrlf has no effect on the status of these files. Deleting the .gitattributes has no effect either.