Case sensitivity in Git
May be a workaround similar to this comment in an msysgit issue (for another case-insensitive OS: Windows) could help?
I've encountered this same issue. Refactored a package name in Eclipse and switching to a previous build broke due to the folder name not reverting. I'm using Windows 7, Git 1.7.0.2.msysgit.0
My folder was renamed in Windows to "
folder" but was displayed as "Folder" in Git.
I fixed the issue by renaming it to "Folder" in Windows and then running:
git mv "Folder" "Folder2"git mv "Folder2" "folder"Note that since git 2.0.1 (June 2014), git mv Folder folder should just work!
Use the following command on macOS. This will change your git configuration to be case sensitive on filenames.
git config core.ignorecase falseYou can set this globally by editing ~/.gitconfig and setting it under core such as:
[core] ignoreCase = false
You can create a disk image (preferably a sparsebundle disk image) with a case-sensitive file system and checkout your git repository there.
The Disk Utility screenshot below shows how to create a case-sensitive disk image.
