Question

In the first commitment of my partial called _Electronics it was written beginning with a capital letters, then I changed it to _electronics.

Git under cygwin ignored the case after commiting the new name, so I changed the name by hand in the target repo.

Now it sometimes changes the commited _electronics partial to _Electronics.

What have I done wrong?

Answer 1

It will be seen as 2 different things but will cause you issues on a non-case-sensitive system. If this is the case, ensure you are tab-completing any paths or file names. Further, to change the name of something in just the case, do this:

mv file.txt temp.txt
git add -A
git commit -m "renaming..."
mv temp.txt File.txt
git add -A
git commit --amend -m "Renamed file.txt to File.txt"

This is an explicit way of making changes committing them, then collapsing the commits. A shorter way to do it is to manipulate the index and working folder all in one:

git mv file.txt temp.txt
git mv temp.txt File.txt
git commit -m "Renamed file.txt to File.txt"

This is related to adjusting directory names as well: git mv and only change case of directory