In a Git repository how to properly rename a directory

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I think it should work to copy the directory to be renamed to a new directory with desired name  and delete the old directory  and git add   git commit and push everything   But is this the best way

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For case sensitive renaming  git mv somefolder someFolder has worked for me before but didn t today for some reason  So as a workaround I created a new folder temp  moved all the contents of somefolder into temp  deleted somefolder  committed the temp  then created someFolder  moved all the contents of temp into someFolder  deleted temp  committed and pushed someFolder and it worked   Shows up as someFolder in git

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I solved it in two steps  To rename folder using mv command you need rights to do so  if you don t have right you can follow these steps  Suppose you want to rename casesensitive to Casesensitive   Step 1  Rename the folder  casesensitive  to something else from explorer       eg  Rename casesensitive to folder1  commit this change    Step 2  Rename this newly named folder folder1  to the expected case sensitive name  Casesensitive   eg  Rename folder1 to Casesensitive   Commit this change

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From Web Application I think you can t  but you can rename all the folders in Git Client  it will move your files in the new renamed folders  than commit and push to remote repository   I had a very similar issue   I had to rename different folders from uppercase to lowercase  like Abc -  abc   I ve renamed all the folders with a dummy name  like  abc      and than committed to remote repository  after that I renamed all the folders to the original name with the lowercase  like abc  and it took them

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Basic rename  or move    git mv  lt old name gt   lt new name gt    Case sensitive rename   eg  from casesensitive to CaseSensitive   you must use a two step   git mv casesensitive tmp git mv tmp CaseSensitive    More about case sensitivity in Git         followed by commit and push would be the simplest way to rename a directory in a git repo

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Simply rename the folder  git is a  content-tracker   so the SHA1 hashes are the same and git knows  that you rename it  The only thing that changes is the tree-object   rm  lt directory gt  git add   git commit

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1  Change a folder s name from oldfolder to newfolder  git mv oldfolder newfolder   2  If newfolder is already in your repository  amp  you d like to override it and use - force  git mv -f oldfolder newfolder   Don t forget to add the changes to index  amp  commit them after renaming with git mv   3  Renaming foldername to folderName on case insensitive file systems  Simple renaming with a normal mv command not git mv  won   t get recognized as a filechange from git  If you try it with the    git mv    command like in the following line  git mv foldername folderName   If you   re using a case insensitive filesystem  e g  you   re on a Mac and you didn   t configure it to be case sensitive  you   ll experience an error message like this one   fatal  renaming    foldername    failed  Invalid argument  And here is what you can do in order to make it work -  git mv foldername tempname  amp  amp  git mv tempname folderName   This splits up the renaming process by renaming the folder at first to a completely different foldername  After renaming it to the different foldername the folder can finally be renamed to the new folderName  After those    git mv   s  again  do not forget to add and commit the changes  Though this is probably not a beautiful technique  it works perfectly fine  The filesystem will still not recognize a change of the letter cases  but git does due to renaming it to a new foldername  and that   s all we wanted

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If you receive this error  fatal  renaming    foldername    failed  Invalid argument Try this   nixOS git mv foldername tempname  amp  amp  git mv tempname folderName WinOS git config core ignorecase false  git mv foldername tempname  git mv tempname folderName

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lots of correct answers  but as I landed here to copy  amp  paste a folder rename with history  I found that this git mv  lt old name gt   lt new name gt   will move the old folder  itself  to nest within the new folder while git mv  lt old name gt    lt new name gt    note the      will move the nested content from the old folder to the new folder both commands didn t copy along the history of nested files  I eventually renamed each nested folder individually   git mv  lt old name gt   lt nest-folder gt   lt new name gt   lt nest-folder gt

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You can rename the directory using the file system  Then you can do git rm  lt old directory gt  and git add  lt new directory gt   Help page   Then you can commit and push   Git will detect that the contents are the same and that it s just a rename operation  and it ll appear as a rename entry in the history  You can check that this is the case before the commit using git status

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