Project commits too many files

Question

I just cloned a project using git and opened a new branch. After changing just 1 file I tried to commit the changes but it shows me that I am commiting like 3000+ files. After clicking on any file to see the differences, the phpstorm says "no differences".

I heard that might be an error related to line endings but I have no idea what to do actually right now. Could you please help me? It is impossible to verify 3000 files right now, and I dont want to destroy the project by pushing something crazy.

I tried changing line endings in phpstorm to LF (unix) and CRLF (windows) but it doesnt help at all. I heard it might be necessary to also change it in git, so I tried to run some random recommended commands but no results at all.

EDIT: added 100 reputation bounty. I cannot resolve this problem

SOLUTION: Okay, looks like it was privilege issue. I gave chmod 777 on all directories and it was too much.

Answer 1

Check the nature of the diff.

For eol, try:

git -c color.diff.whitespace="red reverse" diff -R -- afile

If that is the case, clone again your repo after a

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Check also for any text=auto directive in a .gitattributes file.

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For file permission mode, clone again your repo after:

git config --global core.filemode false

You can see the difference with git diff, as I mentioned in this answer.
Note that since Git 2.9.1, you can change the permission of a file with

git add --chmod=+x -- yourFile