I'm sorry i forgot to mention that I'm using Linux. Well, no, autocrlf wasn't set by default, but I still get all those modifications in the status. Any other reasons why this could be happening? Jawad -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Git-status-shows-modifications-after-cloning-tp27821819p27825623.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html