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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: chenjinlei <chenjinlei456@sina.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rename case insensitive
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:45:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570799DC.9000700@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16238819-B46A-40C7-943A-EBD22EAACEF6@sina.com>

On 08.04.16 12:01, chenjinlei wrote:
> 
> I’m encounter a problem due to my own stupidity…
> #1 I pushed a project named Android to my repository.
> #2 I `mv Android android`, cause I think it’s no good to use the uppercase as my project name.
> #3 I pushed it to my repository again…
> 
> I found that there `Adnroid` and `android` exist in my repository, and I want to delete the former one.
> So I tried to `git pull && git rm Android`, but guess what? I can’t pull the `Android`……
> 
> I found that OS X is case-insensitive, while github repository is case-sensitive, thus I can’t `rm Android` any more. It becomes a gosht in my repository and I can never delete it!
>
Correct.

#make a fresh clone of your repo to the local disc:
git clone "repo_your_repo_name" temp_repo

# go into that repo
cd temp_repo

# Tell Git to rename the folder in the Git repo:
git mv Android android

#Commit
git commit -m "mv Android android"

#Push back
git push origin

HTH

      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-08 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-08 10:01 bug to report chenjinlei
2016-04-08 11:45 ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]

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