Backstory: There was one frontend repo(let’s call it repo A) in my organization which had casing issues in names of folders, I renamed a folder to confirm it with casing of other folders. During this adventure I noticed that git doesn’t support folder rename, I looked up on stackoverflow for help and somehow was able to rename the folder, then commit some changes into the files of that particular folder.

Present:
I cloned repo A and switched to the branch in which I had did my folder-rename adventure. I notice that there are some changes already in staging area, ready to be git add
I did git add curious that I had already done it before in my commits, I did git status again and to my shock, the files were still there, I tried git stash and observed that there was an entry in git stash but there were still 3 files in staging area, ready to be git add, I did git stash again but there were still 3 files.

Note: I just observed that in remote my folder name is metricCharts but when I clone it in my system folder name stays MetricCharts and when I git stash it, I see that folder name in path changes to metricCharts and then if I try git add, it is added

My Question is why is this happening?