HOW DO I CHANGE THE NAME OF A FILE UNDER GIT CONTROL WHERE NOTHING CHANGES EXCEPT THE CAPITALIZATION OF THE LETTERS?

For example, let’s say that you had a file called myfile.js and you wanted to rename it to MyFile.js. This change would not be recognized in git status and therefore cannot be committed because none of the characters actually changed. It appears that git treats files in a ignores-case way when scanning for changes. Whereas, if I added or removed any of the characters in that name, ie MyFile1.js, then git would recognize the rename.

SOLUTION

As per this Stackoverflow post, you can still commit this filename capitalization change using a git mv command. So in this example, we would want to execute this:

git mv myfile.js MyFile.js