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When managing a project using Git, you may accidentally create a file name or folder name in lowercase or uppercase.
.
└── test_File.txt
0 directories, 1 file
In this case, modify the file name or folder name as follows.
.
└── test_file.txt
0 directories, 1 file
However, when you try to commit it, Git may not recognize this change when you check it with the git status command.
git status
On branch main
nothing to commit, working tree clean
In this blog post, I will introduce how to change Git settings to solve this problem that Git cannot distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters.
ignorecase
Git provides a setting called ignorecase. This setting is used to set whether Git recognizes uppercase and lowercase letters when recognizing file names and folder names.
The ignorecase setting is set to false by default. Therefore, Git basically manages uppercase and lowercase letters separately. However, ignorecase is set to true when git clone or git init is executed sometimes.
- Official document: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-config/2.14.6#Documentation/git-config.txt-coreignoreCase
If you have the problem that Git cannot distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters like this, execute the following command to make Git distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters.
git config core.ignorecase false
Then, check whether Git distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase letters by executing the following command.
git status
Unlike before, you can see that Git distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase letters as follows.
On branch main
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
test_file.txt
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
Completed
Done! We’ve seen how to make Git distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters. By default, ignorecase is false, so this problem does not occur, but if you have this problem, please refer to this blog to change the ignorecase setting.
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