Changing capitalization of filenames in Git

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I am trying to rename a file to have different capitalization from what it had before   git mv src collision b2AABB js src collision B2AABB js fatal  destination exists  source src collision b2AABB js  destination src collision B2AABB js   As you can see  Git throws a fit over this  I tried renaming using just the plain old mv command as well  but Git doesn t pick up the rename  as a rename or as a new untracked file    How can I change a file to have a different capitalization of the same name  I am on Mac nbsp OS nbsp X nbsp v10 7 3  Lion  with Git 1 7 9 1 using Z shell  zsh  4 3 15

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Sometimes you want to change the capitalization of a lot of file names on a case insensitive filesystem (e.g. on OS X or Windows). Doing git mv commands will tire quickly. To make things a bit easier this is what I do:

Move all files outside of the directory to, let’s, say the desktop.
Do a git add . -A to remove all files.
Rename all files on the desktop to the proper capitalization.
Move all the files back to the original directory.
Do a git add .. Git should see that the files are renamed.

Now you can make a commit saying you have changed the file name capitalization.

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Set ignorecase to false in git config  As the original post is about  Changing capitalization of filenames in Git    If you are trying to change capitalisation of a filename in your project  you do not need to force rename it from Git  IMO  I would rather change the capitalisation from my IDE editor and make sure that I configure Git properly to pick up the renaming   By default  a Git template is set to ignore case  Git case insensitive   To verify you have the default template  use --get to retrieve the value for a specified key  Use --local and --global to indicate to Git whether to pick up a configuration key-value from your local Git repository configuration or global one  As an example  if you want to lookup your global key core ignorecase   git config --global --get core ignorecase   If this returns true  make sure to set it as   git config --global core ignorecase false    Make sure you have proper permissions to change global   And there you have it  now your Git installation would not ignore capitalisations and treat them as changes   As a suggestion  if you are working on multi-language projects and you feel not all projects should be treated as case-sensitive by Git  just update the local core ignorecase file

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To bulk git mv files to lowercase on macOS   for f in    do git mv   f    echo  f   tr    upper       lower       done   It will lowercase all files in a folder

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Starting Git 2 0 1  June 25th  2014   a git mv will just work on a case insensitive OS   See commit baa37bf by David Turner  dturner-tw    mv  allow renaming to fix case on case insensitive filesystems   git mv hello txt Hello txt  on a case insensitive filesystem always triggers  destination already exists  error  because these two names refer to the same path from the filesystem s point of view and requires the user to give  --force  when correcting the case of the path recorded in the index and in the next commit      Detect this case and allow it without requiring  --force     git mv hello txt Hello txt just works  no --force required anymore      The other alternative is   git config --global core ignorecase false   And rename the file directly  git add and commit

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Considering larsks  answer  you can get it working with a single command with  --force     git mv --force myfile MyFile

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File names under OS X are not case sensitive  by default   This is more of an OS problem than a Git problem  If you remove and readd the file  you should get what you want  or rename it to something else and then rename it back

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Working example   git mv   src images poster video PNG   src images poster video png

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This Python snippet will git mv --force all files in a directory to be lowercase  For example  foo Bar js will become foo bar js via git mv foo Bar js foo bar js --force   Modify it to your liking  I just figured I d share     import os import re  searchDir    c  someRepo  exclude      git    node modules   bin   os chdir searchDir   for root  dirs  files in os walk searchDir       dirs       d for d in dirs if d not in exclude      for f in files          if re match r  A-Z    f               fullPath   os path join root  f              fullPathLower   os path join root  f 0  lower     f 1                command    git mv --force     fullPath         fullPathLower             print command              os system command

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You can open the   git  directory and then edit the  config  file  Under   core   set  set  ignorecase   true  and you are done

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