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My github client for mac stopped showing code comparison when working with my github repos- it just shows the entire file content as deleted (in red with the "-" sign). I tried re-installing the app and re-configuring my repo but it didn't solve it.

The strange thing is that somehow the problem happens only in the combination of the mac client with the github repository:

  • The same Github for Mac does show diff correctly against a different git repository (Heroku)
  • The git command-line does show diff correctly for this Github repository

Only the combination of the mac client with that specific githuv repository doesn't work.

Ideas?

drorw
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Re-cloning the repo from GitHub finally solved it

Edit: the root cause for the problem was that in a sub-directory inside the repo, I had another git repo, pointing to Heroku. For some reason it doesn't get along together in the Mac client

drorw
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If you are developing on Mac OS and that repository has been created using a different operating system it might be the problem presented here: Files showing as modified directly after git clone

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sba
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  • Thanks - I tried everything suggested there with no success. Also, in my case git diff works correctly so I suspect it's a different situation – drorw Oct 08 '13 at 21:37