When I download the metadata from salesforce and copy over the local git repository, sourcetree show every files are different event the code are the same.

[David Wong]

Every time I download the metadata from salesforce and try to merge it back into local Bitbucket branch, the sourcetree show all my files are different even there are no code changes in the comparison. How do I resolved this issue? This issue is in Windows version of sourcetree, but I do not have the same issue in Mac.

[sreekumar_menon]

when you do diff ,what does it show ?

I would check if the new line character is causing the difference .

https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/

[Tim Crall]

Yes, it's definitely a difference in white space, most likely the line endings (which are different on Windows computers than on unix-based computers such as Macs and, presumably, your server).

You can tell SourceTree to ignore changes in whitespace.  I think it will still list the files as changed but it at least won't show the lines as changed in the diff view.

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