I have used Netbeans for years. But just recently within the last month I
started using Netbeans 11. I started a new project where some developers use
MACs, some Windows, and I think one uses Linux. We all use different
editors. I am the only Netbeans user. We have a github repo that we all work
together on. The windows users such as myself use Sourcetree for Git/repo
file management. The reason I am contacting this list forum is because I am
being told that Netbeans 11 is causing a problem for myself (and the team).
After researching the issue, I personally think it is the global git repo
settings. But the problem has happened several times to me since starting
the project on 08/01. (And at least one other developer said it used to
happen to him until he switched from one non-Netbeans editor to another. I
am not quite clear if it has happened again lately to him or not.) When I go
to commit and push my changes through Sourcetree I see a list of files that
other developers have edited/committed/pushed and I pulled in my staging
area as if I had changed them which I had not. The changes are the exact
same changes as the original editor/developer made. So there is nothing
new-no new apparent changes-not even a slip of the keyboard on my part and
an additional blank line or whatever. I don't even recall opening said
files. So after researching this online I see that others have had similar
issues. While Netbeans was never mentioned as the culprit in these online
posts, I wanted to ask here. Is there a setting or a change with Netbeans 11
that would cause files that get committed by my team mates and pulled to my
local git clone/working base by me to be seen by git/source tree as having
been changed by me? For example, does Netbeans 11 change Mac line endings to
Windows automatically when I pull down a file that a Mac team mate user
committed? (Therefor, Git would think I made an edit.) If not, what is your
advice? What would you suggest I say to the members of my team who are
suggesting that I need to either make a change to the way Netbeans works to
stop this or use a new editor? I prefer Netbeans. So I don't want to change
editors. The project, if it matters, is a PHP, Slim framework project with
some Javascript/JQuery files. I have found this Stackoverflow and
Git/Atlassian help articles that I think speak to my personal opinion on
what is causing this:
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/sourcetree-shows-uns
taged-files-of-files-I-did-not-change/qaq-p/329327 and
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15958446/sourcetree-app-says-uncommitted
-changes-even-for-newly-cloned-repository-what. Locally, I have
autocrlf=true by the way. I would appreciate any help you can offer.
