bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case

[Ken Brown]

On 9/15/2016 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: 24441@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, brady@bradyt.com
> > From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:03:08 -0400
> >
> > > See the bug I pointed to, where John explained that OS X filesystems
> > > can be either case-sensitive or case-insensitive.
> >
> > FWIW, this is also true on Cygwin:
> >
> >
> > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
>
> I was under the impression that most or all Cygwin users do use
> case-sensitive file names.

I don't know for sure, but I would guess the opposite, simply because 
using case-sensitivity requires reading the documentation and changing a 
registry entry.

> But if that's not the reality, then yes, a patch to add a run-time
> test for Cygwin will also be welcome.

The attached patch attempts to do this for both Cygwin and OS X.  I 
don't have access to an OS X system, so someone else will have to test 
the OS X part.

Ken

0001-Check-case-sensitivity-when-renaming-files.patch
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