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Yesterday I carelessly made a typo on case of directory name. Result in Rails can’t find file correctly. But when I try to rename it. I found out that git doesn’t recognize a change that same name in differ case (case-insensitive).

Althought I can run this

git config core.ignorecase false

to make git case-sensitive. But this can cause unexpected consequence on other projects.

I read some tutorials（How do I rename a file in git that differs by case only?、 git mv and only change case of directory）

And this is my final solution：

mv Typo typo_temp
git add . # add to staging area
mv typo_temp typo
git add .
git commit -m "Fix case typo"

In some tutorials, they commit on “typo_temp” step. While I just put it in staging area, it still work.

BTW, the mistake I made is:

I want /users routes to /app/controller/api/users_controller (like scope :module). The purpose is to remain API url but move code file to a sub directory.

# config/routes.rb
  get "users" => "api/users_controller#index"

But, Yes, I made the typo on api/ folder (as Api/)

The strange thing is, it works on my laptop. But throws this expection on production machine:

 ActionController::RoutingError (uninitialized constant Api)

Why it doesn’t break on my laptop!? Really strange @_@