You can see how the project format shown in this image goes from Plist format to XML between these branches in Git which doubles the file format which becomes a conflict quite often when merging branches. Something appears to be changing it from Plist to XML format. This project does use CocoaPods so perhaps that is a factor. I am using CocoaPods 0.33.1.
I tested running CocoaPods which is the only way the app is modified beside Xcode though I did not see it changing the project when I run pod install
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Any ideas on how the project files might be changed from Plist format to XML?