Are you, by any chance, on MacOS? HFS+ by default is case-insensitive-but-case-preserving, and Git on MacOS by default runs with core.ignorecase = true as a result. If you set that to false does it change the behavior? Hope this helps, Bryan Turner On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Kevin Coleman <kevin.coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > git isn’t tracking folder renames when the case of the letters change, but it will track it if the folder changes names. Is this intentional? > > Here is an example: > > 08:51:26 ~/test $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/kcoleman/test/.git/ > 08:51:29 ~/test (master #) $ mkdir main > 08:51:44 ~/test (master #) $ cd main > 08:51:46 ~/test/main (master #) $ touch readme.md > 08:51:50 ~/test/main (master #) $ ls > readme.md > 08:51:53 ~/test/main (master #) $ cd .. > 08:51:54 ~/test (master #) $ git add . > 08:51:59 ~/test (master #) $ git commit -m "one" > [master (root-commit) b0fddf6] one > 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 main/readme.md > 08:52:04 ~/test (master) $ cd main > 08:52:14 ~/test/main (master) $ cd .. > 08:52:27 ~/test (master) $ mv main Main > 08:53:51 ~/test (master) $ git status > On branch master > nothing to commit, working directory clean > 08:53:53 ~/test (master) $ ls > Main > 08:54:02 ~/test (master) $ mv Main MainA > 08:55:44 ~/test (master *) $ git status > On branch master > Changes not staged for commit: > (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed) > (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) > > deleted: main/readme.md > > Untracked files: > (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) > > MainA/ > > no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") > 08:55:45 ~/test (master *) $-- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html