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Bug 364708

Summary:	Synchronize view shows non-existent white-space and other outgoing changes
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Fabian Schmidt <Fabian.Schmidt.85>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen
Version:	1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Fabian Schmidt

2011-11-24 07:15:04 EST

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

When synchronising the workspace eclipse finds a lot of whitespace changes. However checking with mysysgit from the gitbash only the actual changes are found. The Problem also affects other users http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/209456/
The behaviour renders the whole plugin useless.

Its probably easier reprucible but that worked for me
For info the workspace previously used svn, in my gitignore i have .svn and .metadata

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Had existing workspace and put a git repository around it
2. Cloned the repository
3. Opened the new workspace
4. imported the existing projects
5. did team -> share project
6. ticked git and then repo in parent folder
7. after that was finised i marked everything and did team -> syncronize workspace
8. way to many changes due to whitespaces

Comment 1 Matthias Sohn

2011-11-25 17:21:54 EST

What are your core.autocrlf settings ? JGit and EGit as of now only support core.autocrlf=false.
See bug 301775.

Comment 2 Fabian Schmidt

2011-11-28 03:02:59 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> What are your core.autocrlf settings ? JGit and EGit as of now only support
> core.autocrlf=false.
> See bug 301775.

I checked Team->Git->Configuration and I did not find a core.autocrlf setting so I assume its the standard setting what ever that is.

Comment 3 Fabian Schmidt

2011-11-28 03:16:32 EST

I just realised taht I created and cloned the git repository with mysysgit, which sets the lineendings automatically, so probably thats the problem if git changes it to unix lineendings and i am working on a windows machine. If EGit does not work with that, then I guess those are the differences

Comment 4 Fabian Schmidt

2011-12-05 09:42:07 EST

As it turns out the reason is egits inability to auto handle line endings

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 301775 ***