[Git] Opening the project on windows marks all .prefabs es edited (but there are no changes)

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Hey, it seems like all prefabs are marked as changed inside git if I open my project on windows, but the files have no changes. I suspected line ending changes, but we have something for that in our .gitattributes

# Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.
* text=auto

# Declare files that will always have CRLF line endings on checkout.
*.sln text eol=crlf

# Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified.
*.png binary
*.jpg binary


# 3D models
*.3dm filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.3ds filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.blend filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.c4d filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.collada filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.dae filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.dxf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.fbx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.jas filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.lws filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.lxo filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.ma filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.max filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.mb filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.obj filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.ply filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.skp filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.stl filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.ztl filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Audio
*.aif filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.aiff filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.it filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.mod filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.mp3 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.ogg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.s3m filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.wav filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.xm filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Fonts
/Assets/Fonts/** filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.otf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.ttf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Images
*.bmp filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.exr filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.gif filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.hdr filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.iff filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.pict filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.psd filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.tga filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.tif filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.tiff filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.bundle filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Collapse Unity-generated files on GitHub
*.asset linguist-generated
*.mat linguist-generated
*.meta linguist-generated
*.prefab linguist-generated
*.unity linguist-generated
*.resS filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.so filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.a filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.srcaar filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.aar filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text

I can’t figure out what is going on, any ideas what could be going on?

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Use a hexdumper like xxd and you can instantly prove if it is line endings.

If the project is very old it might have binary prefab files in the rerpo, which nowadays would probably get re-serialized into YAML text and thus be 100% different.

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I checked with Notepad ++ and the line endings were crlf. After opening unity on windows they changed to lf. But now when I committed them just to try something, all of the commits vanished. I don’t know whats going on, but that they are not actually committed is enough for me right now.

Thanks for your reply :wink: