Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) git clone https://github.com/giellalt/lang-sma What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) Clone to be clean, as reported by git status What happened instead? (Actual behavior) git status reported four changed files What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? Nothing except those four files Anything else you want to add: This only happens on an M2 Macbook Pro. With Apple's git (1.37.1), a huge number of files were reported as modified. Please review the rest of the bug report below. You can delete any lines you don't wish to share. [System Info] git version: git version 2.40.0 cpu: arm64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Darwin 22.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.3.0: Mon Jan 30 20:39:46 PST 2023; root:xnu-8792.81.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64 compiler info: clang: 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202) libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh [Enabled Hooks]