Question

I’m not too sure what is going on here, but sometimes a particular file in my repository will change the case of its name. e.g.,:

before: File.h

after: file.h

I don’t really care why this is happening, but this causes git to think it is a new file, and then I have to go and change the file name back. Can you just make git ignore case changes?

[edit] I suspect it is Visual Studio doing something weird with that particular file, because it seems to happen most often when I open and save it after changes. I don’t have any way to fix bugs in VS however, but git should be a bit more capable I hope.

Answer 1

Since version 1.5.6 there is an ignorecase option available in the [core] section of .git/config

e.g. add ignorecase = true

To change it for just one repo, from that folder run:

git config core.ignorecase true 

To change it globally:

git config --global core.ignorecase true