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In WSL (Ubuntu 18.04) git shows unwanted unstaged changes sometimes. If you perform git diff on the files, you can see that only file permissions have changed, e.g:

old mode 100755  
new mode 100644

Fix:
Add these lines to /etc/wsl.conf:

[automount]
options="metadata"

Then run wsl --terminate <distroname>
Then start WSL again

Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/ovmlk3/unable_to_change_permissions_of_a_file_using/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1257592/how-do-i-remove-files-saying-old-mode-100755-new-mode-100644-from-unstaged-cha

#wsl #git #filepermissions #chmod #unstaged #changes

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