I'm not familiar with the details of github, but where are you trying to rename the file, on your local clone or on the github server itself?

Apr 15, 2010 · Git tracks content, not files, so it doesn't matter how you get your index into the proper state - add+rm or mv - it produces the same result. Git then uses its rename/copy detection to let you …

Apr 16, 2021 · As previous answers have explained, Git derives a file rename operation from the change in content in your source tree. To record a rename operation, Git stores both a delete and add …

Git detects renames rather than persisting the operation with the commit, so whether you use git mv or mv doesn't matter, as long as the move operation is committed separately from any changes to the …

Aug 4, 2020 · You may think there is a difference if you run git status after manually renaming a file, but that only appears so because git mv auto-stages the change (only after which it appears as rename). …

Jun 25, 2012 · I think it should work to copy the directory to be renamed to a new directory with desired name, and delete the old directory, and git add, git commit and push everything. But is this the best …

It's important to note that this doesn't work if you're trying to rename a directory instead of a file. If you need to rename a directory, you have to do a git mv for each file in the directory instead.

I was looking for something like a git rename instead of git mv, and this does effectively the same job by using rename followed by a simple git add --all. Easily the best solution here.

That new --file-info-callback feature (probably for git-filter-repo v2.46.0) allows you to write a Python function that can examine each file change in every commit, rename the file when it exists while …

Feb 5, 2012 · I want to rename all erb files in my Git project to haml. (like index.html.erb to index.html.haml) If I rename each file, I have to type the following command more than thirty times.