Git: Solve Letter Case Problem

There are time that the git show some problem with case

Example

The file system show: my_folder

Git track: My_folder

And also the remote repos store My_folder

Problem:

We already have my_folder.

We don’t know why git track My_folder .

We don’t know how to change and add it to git.

Causes:

Mac and Window file system doesn’t know upper and lower case.

We can name it but underneath it cannot differentiate between these two.*

Sometimes we got wrong case so it cannot be managed by file system.

We will manage by git tracking instead.

Git knows letter case.

*Bonus: you can prove this by try naming two folder/file with the same name but different case. This is not possible.

Solution:

First you have to list out what git is actually tracking

Yep. It’s here then we will change it with git mv

Now we have to do some trick with mv

Now git know my_folder and you can push it to the remote repository.

Cheers !