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Change case to lowercase for committed files

Stefan Baumgartner

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It’s super-annoying that the Mac’s file OS is case insensitive. Especially if you have a *NIX based server that can’t read your images and things like that. Just renaming it on the file system won’t work, you have to rename it via Git itself:

git mv OldFileName.jpg newfilename.jpg

With this little script you can do lowercase all the files in a directory, ready to commit:

for f in *; do git mv "$f" "`echo $f | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`"; done

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