The filesystem will still not recognize a change of the letter cases, but git does due to renaming it to a new foldername, and that’s all we wanted :) Other interesting observations Though this is probably not a beautiful technique, it works perfectly fine. After those ‘git mv’s, again, do not forget to add and commit the changes. ![]() After renaming it to the different foldername the folder can finally be renamed to the new folderName. This splits up the renaming process by renaming the folder at first to a completely different foldername. Git mv foldername tempname & git mv tempname folderName you’re on a Mac and you didn’t configure it to be case sensitive, you’ll experience an error message like this one:įatal: renaming ‘foldername’ failed: Invalid argumentĪnd here is what you can do in order to make it work: If you’re using a case insensitive filesystem, e.g. If you try it with the ‘git mv’ command like in the following line Why is this more interesting? Because simple renaming with a normal mv command(not git mv) won’t get recognized as a filechange from git. Except, and here’s the part where it gets interesting: Renaming foldername to folderName on case insensitive file systems This is a pretty simple usecase and should work almost every time. The -u option at the add command is important here, it’ll update already tracked files/folders. Git commit -m "changed the foldername whaddup" If there’s already a newfolder in your repo and you’d like to overwrite it use –forceĭo not forget: you have to add the changes to the index and commit them after renaming with git mv. How to useĪssuming you’d like to change a folder’s name from oldfolder to newfolder We can see there’s no commit so we have to add the updates and commit the changes afterwards. It performs a file move, adds the new file to the index and removes the old file from it. ![]() If you want to move several files to a single path you may specify n sources but the last argument is the destination. git mv takes at least two arguments, a source and a destination. Renaming with git mvįor renaming files or folders use nothing but the git mv command. So it happened to me that I was working on a branch of a project and had to rename a subfolder. As easy as it sounds, it turned out renaming files and folders with git can sometimes be pretty painful.
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