IntelliJ Git Integration plugin -> "New Branch" puts capital F in "feature/abc"

Question

Using IntlliJ 15.0.6 and Git Integration plugin.

When I use the GUI button at the bottom right of the screen (click on Git: develop) to display Git Branches popoup and choose + New Branch

Enter branch name: feature/abc

Yet branch is created with capital F: Feature/abc

Is this a bug (and if so where... intellij, plugin, or git) ?

Can I fix it (other than using command line every time I create a branch)?

Answer 1

This is a git thing combined with the whether or not the filesystem that you are using is case sensitive or not. Related to Why is git capitalizing my branch name prefix?

Take a look at the below, done on OSX using:

IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.4
Build #IU-162.2032.8, built on September 9, 2016
JRE: 1.8.0_112-release-b343 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o

1. First we create a couple of branches, feature/abc, feature/xyz. No problems here, branches are created with the expected case:

2. Next we create a branch called Feature/pqr, now this branch will be created with a lower case feature since a feature* branch already exists on the file system :

3. Finally, create a new branch SomeOtherFeature/blah and this will be created with the correct case since it has never been created before on the filesystem:

If you were to now create a someotherfeature/blah2 then this would retain the case of the first branch (i.e. will get created as SomeOtherFeature/blah2.