How do I commit case-sensitive only filename changes in Git

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I have changed a few files name by  de-capitalize the first letter  as in Name jpg to name jpg  Git does not recognize this changes and I had to delete the files and upload them again  Is there a way that Git can be case-sensitive when checking for changes in file names  I have not made any changes to the file itself

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Using SourceTree I was able to do this all from the UI

Rename FILE.ext to whatever.ext
Stage that file
Now rename whatever.ext to file.ext
Stage that file again

It's a bit tedious, but if you only need to do it to a few files it's pretty quick

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We can use git mv command  Example below   if we renamed file abcDEF js to abcdef js then we can run the following command from terminal  git mv -f   abcDEF js    abcdef js

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I ve faced this issue several times on MacOS  Git is case sensitive but Mac is only case preserving    Someone commit a file  Foobar java and after a few days decides to rename it to FooBar java  When you pull the latest code it fails with The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout     The only reliable way that I ve seen that fixes this is    git rm Foobar java Commit it with a message that you cannot miss git commit -m  TEMP COMMIT    Pull This will pop up a conflict forcing you to merge the conflict - because your change deleted it  but the other change renamed  hence the problem  it   Accept your change which is the  deletion  git rebase --continue  Now drop your workaround git rebase -i HEAD 2 and drop the TEMP COMMIT   Confirm that the file is now called FooBar java

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Under OSX  to avoid this issue and avoid other problems with developing on a case-insensitive filesystem  you can use Disk Utility to create a case sensitive virtual drive   disk image   Run disk utility  create new disk image  and use the following settings  or change as you like  but keep it case sensitive      Make sure to tell git it is now on a case sensitive FS   git config core ignorecase false

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If nothing worked use git rm filename to delete file from disk and add it back

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When you ve done a lot of file renaming and some of it are just a change of casing  it s hard to remember which is which  manually  git moving  the file can be quite some work  So what I would do during my filename change tasks are    remove all non-git files and folder to a different folder repository  commit current empty git folder  this will show as all files deleted   add all the files back into the original git folder repository  commit current non-empty git folder    This will fix all the case issues without trying to figure out which files or folders you renamed

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This is what I did on OS X   git mv File file tmp git mv file tmp file   Two steps because otherwise I got a    file exists    error  Perhaps it can be done in one step by adding --cached or such

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I used those following steps   git rm -r --cached   git add --all   git commit -a -m  Versioning untracked files  git push origin master   For me is a simple solution

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I took  CBarr answer and wrote a Python 3 Script to do it with a list of files      usr bin env python3   - - coding  UTF-8 - -  import os import shlex import subprocess  def run command absolute path  command name       print   Running   command name  absolute path        command   shlex split  command name       command line interface   subprocess Popen             command  stdout subprocess PIPE  cwd absolute path        output   command line interface communicate   0      print  output        if command line interface returncode    0          raise RuntimeError   A process exited with the error   s                         command line interface returncode      def main        FILENAMES MAPPING                    r F   SublimeText  Data   r README MD   r README md             r F   SublimeText  Data  Packages  Alignment   r readme md   r README md             r F   SublimeText  Data  Packages  AmxxEditor   r README MD   r README md               for absolute path  oldname  newname in FILENAMES MAPPING          run command  absolute path   git mv   s    s1       oldname  newname             run command  absolute path   git add   s1       newname             run command  absolute path                 git commit -m  Normalized the    s   with case-sensitive name                     newname              run command  absolute path   git mv   s1    s       newname  newname             run command  absolute path   git add   s       newname             run command  absolute path   git commit --amend --no-edit     if   name         main         main

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Git has a configuration setting that tells it whether to be case sensitive or insensitive  core ignorecase  To tell Git to be case-senstive  simply set this setting to false   Be careful if you have already pushed the files  then you should first move them given the other answers   git config core ignorecase false  Documentation From the git config documentation   core ignorecase If true  this option enables various workarounds to enable git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive  like FAT  For example  if a directory listing finds makefile when git expects Makefile  git will assume it is really the same file  and continue to remember it as Makefile  The default is false  except git-clone 1  or git-init 1  will probe and set core ignorecase true if appropriate when the repository is created   Case-insensitive file-systems The two most popular operating systems that have case-insensitive file systems that I know of are  Windows OS X

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Sometimes it is useful to temporarily change Git s case sensitivity  Method  1 - Change case sensitivity for a single command  git -c core ignorecase true checkout mybranch to turn off case-sensitivity for a single checkout command  Or more generally  git -c core ignorecase   lt  lt true or false gt  gt   lt  lt command gt  gt    Credit to VonC for suggesting this in the comments   Method  2 - Change case sensitivity for multiple commands  To change the setting for longer  e g  if multiple commands need to be run before changing it back    git config core ignorecase  this returns the current setting  e g  false   git config core ignorecase  lt  lt true or false gt  gt  - set the desired new setting     Run multiple other commands    git config core ignorecase  lt  lt false or true gt  gt  - set config value back to its previous setting

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1  rename file Name jpg to name1 jpg  2  commit removed file Name jpg  3  rename file name1 jpg to name jpg  4  ammend added file name jpg to previous commit  git add git commit --amend

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Similar to  Sijmen s answer  this is what worked for me on OSX when renaming a directory  inspired by this answer from another post    git mv CSS CSS2 git mv CSS2 css   Simply doing git mv CSS css gave the invalid argument error  fatal  renaming   static CSS  failed  Invalid argument perhaps because OSX s file system is case insensitive  p s BTW if you are using Django  collectstatic also wouldn t recognize the case difference and you d have to do the above  manually  in the static root directory as well

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I tried the following solutions from the other answers and they didn t work    git mv filename git rm -f filename   If your repository is hosted remotely  GitHub  GitLab  BitBucket   you can rename the file on origin  GitHub com  and force the file rename in a top-down manner    The instructions below pertain to GitHub  however the general idea behind them should apply to any remote repository-hosting platform  Keep in mind the type of file you re attempting to rename matters  that is  whether it s a file type that GitHub deems as editable  code  text  etc  or uneditable  image  binary  etc  within the browser    Visit GitHub com Navigate to your repository on GitHub com and select the branch you re working in Using the site s file navigation tool  navigate to the file you intend to rename  Does GitHub allow you to edit the file within the browser     a   Editable   Click the  Edit this file  icon  it looks like a pencil  Change the filename in the filename text input  b   Uneditable   Open the  Download  button in a new tab and save the file to your computer Rename the downloaded file In the previous tab on GitHub com  click the  Delete this file  icon  it looks like a trashcan  Ensure the  Commit directly to the branchname branch  radio button is selected and click the  Commit changes  button Within the same directory on GitHub com  click the  Upload files  button Upload the renamed file from your computer   Ensure the  Commit directly to the branchname branch  radio button is selected and click the  Commit changes  button Locally  checkout fetch pull the branch Done

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You can use git mv   git mv -f OldFileNameCase newfilenamecase

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Mac OSX High Sierra 10 13 fixes this somewhat  Just make a virtual APFS partition for your git projects  by default it has no size limit and takes no space    In Disk Utility  click the   button while the Container disk is selected Select APFS  Case-Sensitive  under format Name it Sensitive Profit Optional  Make a folder in Sensitive called git and ln -s  Volumes Sensitive git  Users johndoe git   Your drive will be in  Volumes Sensitive     How do I commit case-sensitive only filename changes in Git

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