Question by Flyclops · Apr 19, 2013 at 04:49 PM · git version control

Unity and git - issue with constantly modified prefabs and scenes

We have been using git with Unity fairly successfully, but there is one annoying behavior we can't seem to fix. Unity constantly modifies .scene and .prefab files even when no changes are made. Whenever Unity is opened or focused, it will modify several files even if we haven't made changes or even opened the scene. We can commit the changes and Unity will modify them again. We end up having to constantly discard the changes otherwise we get merge conflicts - again even when neither of the committers have made any actual changes.

We have meta files and force text enabled. We have a good .gitignore. And we don't attempt to merge these files normally in our git workflow.

Does anybody have any advice about this?

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Olivier-Tache · Sep 23, 2016 at 11:30 AM 2

$$anonymous$$ore than 3 years later, I have the same issue which does not seen to be documented anywhere. Have you found a solution ?

ErayT Olivier-Tache · Nov 23, 2017 at 01:55 PM 0

Year 2017, same here...

Dray Olivier-Tache · Nov 23, 2017 at 03:01 PM 0

This sounds like some line-endings kind of issue, are you guys developing on different platforms? Or maybe unity changes the permissions on those scene and prefab files? If it's that you can tell git to ignore permission changes. That's the first two things that come to my $$anonymous$$d