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GIT clone on windows creates modified file

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I normally use git on linux, though I have an installation on a Windows 7 laptop.When using it yesterday to clone a repository on my linux machine, the clonewould open with one of the files modified. I could not undo the modification. Repeated cloning would do the same thing. I then tried cloning from the originalrepo, but using a linux partition on that laptop. It worked fine. Any idea why theWindows git doesn't work?

posted Dec 20, 2013 by Jai Prakash

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