strange insertion of whitespace after 1st character

[david shave]

I am getting a very strange whitespace issue.

I am working with a local copy of a WordPress site with the .git repo in the wp-content/themes folder so all changes to any theme are tracked etc.

When I set up the repo it considered every file (apart from those in gitignore) as new files and I committed those as the 'initial commit'. 

Firstly is that normal? To have to commit all the files when setting up a new repo?

2nd - and this is the strange behaviour.

when I go to stage these files I get some whitespace inserted after the first character on many of the files.whitespace.jpg

I have the ignore whitespace checked so I am not sure what is causing this.

[david shave]

I found the file, but it is already set to true. Also this isn't happening to all of my repos, just this particular one.

[Balázs Szakmáry]

Maybe the config file of the repo (.config in the hidden .git folder) has this set to false?

[david shave]

content of config file in the repo: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = false bare = false logallrefupdates = true symlinks = false ignorecase = true hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly

[Balázs Szakmáry]

1. Yes, this is normal.
2. This is most probably due to your codepage settings. (You use Windows, Git stores CR/LF with the unix codes.) Check your global Git config (usually at c:\Users\<your username>\.gitconfig). In the [core] section, there should be an entry that says autocrlf = true. If it is not there, or set to false, change it.