Rename a file in git with different casing

On MacOS git doesn't handle file name casing changes very well.

If I have a committed file Something.txt I can mv it and git doesn't recognize the change:

> mv Something.txt something.txt
> git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Git will recognize the change if you perform the move with git mv.

> git mv Something.txt something.txt
> git status

renamed: Something.txt -> something.txt

There is a configuration regarding this:

git config core.ignorecase false

This is set to false by default. Setting this to true may provide the behaviour you want.

On Linux, this is not an issue. The filesystem recognizes files with different casing as different files and git likewise.

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