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Bug: Git rename does not work if folder naming was changed from lower to upper case on OSX

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RERobert Eisele <robert@xarg.org>
Date
Apr 29, 2017, 10:47 UTC
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Hi,

after having committed folders with lower case naming, I decided to rename them to upper-case names. Expecting git to detect them as renamings, it started a new parallel hierarchy with new files, which I had to add/commit.

It was a kinda strange behavior, which I fixed by rename the folder to something completely different, commit and rename the folder again to the desired value.

Is this an actual desired behavior or is it a bug?
Robert
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  1. Robert EiseleApr 29, 2017
  2. Torsten BögershausenApr 29, 2017
  3. Kevin DaudtApr 29, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2017
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