Why does Git in a Dev Container show old files as modified (even with no changes)?

Question

I'm having a weird issue with Git inside a VS Code Dev Container: when I open a project folder, Git shows a bunch of already committed files as "modified" (even though I didn’t change anything)

But as you can see, there are no actual changes

I've tried to do

git config core.autocrlf false
git config core.filemode false

But nothing changed

Try running git diff to get git to show you the differences. Editors can get confused, especially about line endings. — Hans Kilian
– Hans Kilian, Commented Apr 19 at 8:03
1) Does your repo have a .gitattributes file with any line ending settings? 2) After changing the autocrlf settings, have you tried git add --renormalize <files_showing_as_modified>? — merlin2011
– merlin2011, Commented Apr 24 at 7:00

JayChase · Accepted Answer · 2025-09-02 10:16:08Z

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I get this a lot working between Windows 11 and Linux dev containers addng a .gitattributes file to handle the line endings normally works for me.

.gitattributes

*.{cmd,[cC][mM][dD]} text eol=crlf
*.{bat,[bB][aA][tT]} text eol=crlf

answered Sep 2 at 10:16

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