How to commit case-sensitive filename changes in Git

Git has a configuration setting that tells it whether to be case sensitive or insensitive: core.ignorecase. To tell Git to be case-senstive, simply set this setting to false:

git config core.ignorecase false

Documentation

From the git config documentation:

core.ignorecase

Internal variable which enables various workarounds to enable Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive, like APFS, HFS+, FAT, NTFS, etc. For example, if a directory listing finds “makefile” when Git expects “Makefile”, Git will assume it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as “Makefile”.

The default is false, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.ignoreCase true if appropriate when the repository is created.

Git relies on the proper configuration of this variable for your operating and file system. Modifying this value may result in unexpected behavior.