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.
The Windows and macOS file systems are case-insensitive (but case-preserving) by default. Most Linux filesystems are case-sensitive. Git was built originally to be the Linux kernel's version control system, so unsurprisingly, it's case-sensitive.
As long as you're just renaming a file, and not a folder, you can just use git mv:
git mv -f yOuRfIlEnAmE yourfilename
(As of a change in Git 2.0.1, the -f
flag in the incantation above is superfluous, but it was needed in older Git versions.)
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