Github doing unwanted changes on index.html

Question

It's my first time using github and I've faced an annoying problem with it.
Me and my friend are working on a web project on github and we've worked on it for over a month without a problem. I've installed github's windows application on multiple computers and all of the sudden, they are having the exact same problem.

When I open my github application it says that there is an uncommited change on index.html. The change is not mine and it's not a change actually[!]; it shows that the lines from 1 to 165 of old version has been deleted and the same lines has been added to new version!

Now when I click sync button to sync my version with the latest version it says failed to sync this branch. (same error here without any useful answers)

I've only one master branch. What should I do?

This is a newline problem. Try adding a .gitattributes file in settings. — SLaks, May 20 '13 at 15:54
@SLaks I can see both `.gitattributes` and `.gitignore` in settings — Farid Rn, May 20 '13 at 15:56

Ruslan Osipov · Answer 1 · 2013-05-20T18:29:05.450

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Try playing with git config core.autocrlf true or git config core.autocrlf false setting.

edited May 20 '13 at 18:29

answered May 20 '13 at 17:57

Ruslan Osipov

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Windows/Unix line endings is clearly the source of the problem, answer provides one of the ways to deal with CRLF. – Ruslan Osipov May 20 '13 at 18:32

Github doing unwanted changes on index.html

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