Is git not case sensitive?

In the first commitment of my partial called _Electronics it was written beginning with a capital letters, then I changed it to _electronics.

Git under cygwin ignored the case after commiting the new name, so I changed the name by hand in the target repo.

Now it sometimes changes the commited _electronics partial to _Electronics.

What have I done wrong?

It is going to depend on the core.ignorecase configuration value, which is set to false in case-sensitive filesystems and true in msysgit on Windows.

> 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.

More detail in this reply to Changing capitalization of filenames in Git.

It will be seen as 2 different things but will cause you issues on a non-case-sensitive system. If this is the case, ensure you are tab-completing any paths or file names. Further, to change the name of something in just the case, do this:

mv file.txt temp.txt
git add -A
git commit -m "renaming..."
mv temp.txt File.txt
git add -A
git commit --amend -m "Renamed file.txt to File.txt"

This is an explicit way of making changes committing them, then collapsing the commits. A shorter way to do it is to manipulate the index and working folder all in one:

git mv file.txt temp.txt
git mv temp.txt File.txt
git commit -m "Renamed file.txt to File.txt"

This is related to adjusting directory names as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3011625/git-mv-and-only-change-case-of-directory/3011723#3011723

This is far easier:

git mv Electronics electronics -f
git commit -m "That was easy!"

git config --system core.ignorecase false

In my scenario I had two folders tests and Tests which showed as two separate folders in Github but a single Tests folder in Windows. My aim was to combine them both into tests.

I used the following approach:

1. Create a new folder temp
2. Copy all content from Tests to temp
3. Delete Tests
4. execute git rm Tests -r
5. Rename temp to tests

I have tried to solve the issue and it was successful on Windows10

Lets suppose there are two folders on bitbucket TEST and test but when I clone repo on disk it creates only TEST and I want to keep test as single folder on git which contains all files.

I will need to execute following commands on command line git mv TEST test1 -f git mv text1 test -f git commit -m "renaming..." git push

Now you will see that folder hierarchy is corrected on bitbucket.