FFS Shows Changes in File Content over FTP even though The Content Is Identical

[gotlisch]

Hi there,

Syncing between my local Windows Machine (git repo) and my staging site. Ever so often FFS picks up changes in a whole bunch of files that have not been changed. Granted it does show that the file size is different, which i suspect is a because my colleague is on a Mac and is also pushing files (he tends to just push everything even-though no changes has been made, and does not use FFS).

Anyway, file size aside the actual content is identical, if I open up the files and in Notepad ++ and run the compare plugin it shows as identical (this is also obvious just by visually inspecting them). So I would expect FFS to ignore those files when I run in content comparison mode.

How can I best combat this problem, I ideally don't want to be overwriting files that haven't changed, but more importantly I want to be able to visually see the files that ACTUALLY have been updated before I Sync (as QA/sense check) which become difficult when FFS picks up hundreds of files.

For the record after I push and sync again it identifies the correct files.

Thanks in advance for your advice!!

Cheers,
Mika

[Zenju]

FFS implements a binary, not textual file comparison. I'd suggest to normalize the text files using a code-formatter tool.