GitHub help

I forked the current 2.3 Development repo, created a local copy and changed the SCSS file at


When I commited this back to my GitHub repo, my CSS change shows up with it's red deletion and green addition
https://github.com/eladnova/revolution/commit/5b36b0cab8dee1ae3ad865e2326dd8b39e3798b0

I'm using CodeKit 2 to process that CSS file to
and I thought a similar thing would happen. IE, the CSS would have 1 deletion and 1 addition. Instead, this file has 8,920 additions and 18 deletions so clearly something went wrong.

Would this be a setting with my CodeKit 2 processor or something I did incorrectly with Git and GitHub? Maybe some formatting options etc?

I just do not checkout the compiled css file (had many fights with it creating merge conflicts that I couldn't solve afterwards bc the mergetool im using [p4merge] crashed due to the huge 1 line minified css...), you can remove the minified/compiled css file before committing with



the correct path you get with "git status"

What you saw is almost always caused by variations in the EOL character on different platforms.

I spent a lot of time looking at this a while back, and concluded that there's no good universal solution for it other than training all contributors to use the same scheme in their local Git repos *and* their editors -- one that coerces everything to *nix line endings.