How to forcefully commit a file to Git even if the file is ruled as unchanged

Question

Let’s say I have two files with similar size and same creation date but different content and if I try to replace one file with the other, git does not recognize this file as changed

How can I solve this?

Answer 1

This is simple, just follow the below commands:

git rm --cached <yourfile>

git add <yourfile>

This should add the new file into the index regardless of what was there previously.