i have frustrating , weird problem regarding 2 django projects, in 2 separate git repositories. let me define project 1 a , project 2 b . a has homepage, connecting home.css file. have checked git repository contents of file, overwriting local copy, , copy pasted raw contents of file home.css -> homepage displays fine. now, whenever quit django processes , virtual environment associated it, , commit on git, , run project again, home.css file corrupted. page looks this: if delete home.css file directory , run following commands: git fetch origin master git reset --hard fetch_head the project runs fine again (again screenshot of correct markup now): the fun thing is, happens projects b , a @ same time. whenever a screwed up, b screwed up. , add confusion: on computer, same repositories, files being changed leading corruption of stylesheet. what culprit? what's going on? files in online git repository correct, because if paste raw contents home.html works a