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Is there a way in GIT, to remove files changed from being committed if it has less than 2 characters changed?

I have been working on a project and edited a bunch of files in a folder. This folder resides on my local and not watched by GIT. I usually copy the entire folder into another computer that is watched by GIT to be pushed to the repo. The problem now is that a bunch of files are being shown as changed due to line endings and spaces being shown up, as it's being copied from windows to a linux box.

I did the following command: git diff --stat to show all the files changed with the # of lines/characters changed.

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As you can see many of these files have zero changes done to them. However, they still show up in my git status modified section.

How do I remove or revert these back to normal as I never changed anything with these files?

Solution

  • I think it is more likely that these files are showing up due to mode changes. Try running git diff on one of them. Do you see something like this?

    $ git diff query.viewport.js
diff --git a/query.viewport.js b/query.viewport.js
old mode 100644
new mode 100755

    If so, then you might be able to solve this with something like:

    $ find modules/hotsite/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -x