Issue with renaming a directory in git to lowercase while ignoreLowercase=True
git
Solution
Example: if you are lower-casing Mydir
git mv src/Mydir src/mydirs
git mv src/mydirs src/mydir
git commit -m "Rename folder Mydir to mydir"
Problem
When I type `git status`, I see: ``` # On branch master # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # modified: DIR/a # ``` However, in my working directory I see that this file is actually called `dir/a` (note the lowercase `dir` instead of `DIR`). Question: I want to add this modified `a` file to the staging area and commit, but I want it to be as it is in my working directory (which shows `dir/a`) - as opposed to the way git is seeing it as `DIR/a`. How can I do this? Important Note: Unfortunately, I can't simply `git mv DIR/a dir/a` because `DIR/a` doesn't actually exist in the working tree. Currently my `.git/config` file shows `ingorecase = true`, so I know that I have to set that equal to false. However, after doing nothing but changing this flag, a `git status` of this now reveals: ``` # On branch master # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # modified: DIR/a # # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # dir/ ``` I expected this since git only tracks content, and switching ignorecase would make git think a new file was added. Unfortunately, git now thinks that I have two files that are modified, when in fact I only have one. I want `git status` to simply show `dir/a` (as it is in my working directory) instead of `DIR/a`, with the same diffs of `a` I had just recently made. Additional Note If you are curious as to how such a precarious situation arose in the first place, I have managed to replicate the silly mistakes I had made when originally renaming the case of my directory from `DIR` to `dir`. If you think this would help in getting to a solution for this problem, I would be happy to make an edit that would reveal how I mistakenly made git so confused. (it involves me accidentally hitting `mv` instead of `git mv`, and being unaware of the `ignorecase` flag and leaving it as `ignorecase=true`).