Renaming a file in Git

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I have a file in Git called 100_Test_Customer_Team_abc.txt which has been pushed to the remote repository. I made a mistake in the name - the team is supposed to be in capital letters, so I want to rename it to 100_Test_Customer_Team_ABC.txt.

I have used:

git mv 100_Test_Customer_Team_abc.txt 100_Test_Customer_Team_ABC.txt

But I get the following error:

fatal: destination exists

How can I rename it?

`git mv 100_Test_Customer_Team_abc.txt tmp && git mv tmp 100_Test_Customer_Team_ABC.txt`, perhaps. — Biffen, May 06 '15 at 13:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '15 at 13:43

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You could try this solution:

 git mv --force 100_Test_Customer_Team_abc.txt 100_Test_Customer_Team_ABC.txt

answered May 06 '15 at 13:43

teoreda

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '21 at 20:55

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Move it using the mv command:

mv 100_Test_Customer_Team_abc.txt 100_Test_Customer_Team_ABC.txt

Since you are using Windows, just you can simply rename the file via Windows Explorer.

Then add all changes as tracked changes: git add -A. You will see then that Git tracks the deleted/added as a renamed in git status

Now you can simply git commit -m 'Renamed file' and push to remote.

edited Apr 13 '21 at 20:55

Peter Mortensen

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answered May 06 '15 at 13:50

Marc-Alexandre Bérubé

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Renaming a file in Git

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