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When I type 'git diff filename' it highlights all of my code in green (I did modifications to my file and CMD+S to save changes and test multiples times) instead of just the new lines... Anybody can help? Thank you guys

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  • can you provide the results of a git status and the filename? Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 16:51
  • @Maus / filename is index.html / On branch master Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: index.html no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 16:56
  • Could it be that the DOS/linux line ending format has changed? You could try a dos2unix or unix2dos and see if the diff changes to just the modified lines. Commented Jun 22, 2019 at 1:12

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there was a change in ELF format. The old flags to control this are a mess. The best thing you can do is set git to not mess with it by adding * -text to gitattributes. Set the files to their original EOL format (amend if it's already commited) and then everything should be back to normal.

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Thank you for your response; I just had to "git add index.html" again and it worked...