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

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:03:08 -0400

On 9/15/2016 11:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:57:40 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
>>
>> My point was that it is not necessarily the case that, for Emacs,
>> _just because_ a filesystem is case-insensitive, you cannot
>> rename a file to the same name but with a different letter case.
>
> 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

Ken