Git doesn't save capitalization change in file names.

>
> So I've now encountered this with both GitHub and BitBucket, Windows and
> Linux versions, so I'm fairly sure it's git's fault.
>
> Example: if file named "Pathfinding.java" was renamed to "PathFinding.java"
> and that change is then committed, filename won't change in repository.
>

> > Example: if file named "Pathfinding.java" was renamed to
> > "PathFinding.java" and that change is then committed, filename won't
> > change in repository.
> 
> This actually comes down to the file system you use, as git itself does
> keep track of the capitalisation of file names; if the file system is
> case insensitive (Mac OSX being the typical example) then you can run
> into weird issues when files change case.
> 
> For example, the following two search results:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10523849/changing-capitalization-of-filenames-in-git
> 
> https://ocroquette.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/git-capitalization-of-file-names-and-name-conflicts/

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Andrew Ardill wrote:
>
>> On 12 January 2016 at 13:06, Daniil S <ds98s3a@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So I've now encountered this with both GitHub and BitBucket, Windows
>>> and Linux versions, so I'm fairly sure it's git's fault.
> I highly doubt that the Linux variety of Git displays this problem, unless
> it is run on a case-insensitive file system.
>
>>> Example: if file named "Pathfinding.java" was renamed to
>>> "PathFinding.java" and that change is then committed, filename won't
>>> change in repository.
>> This actually comes down to the file system you use, as git itself does
>> keep track of the capitalisation of file names; if the file system is
>> case insensitive (Mac OSX being the typical example) then you can run
>> into weird issues when files change case.
>>
>> For example, the following two search results:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10523849/changing-capitalization-of-filenames-in-git
>>
>> https://ocroquette.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/git-capitalization-of-file-names-and-name-conflicts/
> I'd like to offer the most common work-around:
>
> git mv Pathfinding.java Pathfinding.java.rename
> git mv Pathfinding.java.rename PathFinding.java
>