GNU bug report logs - #22300
25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 24441

Found in versions 24.5, 25.1.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 22300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, esq <at> lawlist.com, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#22300: 25.1.50;
 Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:22:57 -0800

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> If OS X filesystems are always case-insensitive, perhaps the same code
> should also be compiled on that system. If some of OS X filesystems are
> case-sensitive, we can only do that if Emacs can know which one is it.

The boot filesystem must be case-insensitive, but HFS+ allows formatting a
drive as case-sensitive on non-boot volumes, so we can't assume OS X = case
insensitive. (I also use ZFS on the Mac, which can be case sensitive or
insensitive).

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