GNU bug report logs - #24441
24.5; rename directory in dired to change case

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Reported by: Brady Trainor <brady <at> bradyt.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 22300

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 #17 received at 24441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 24441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, brady <at> bradyt.com
Subject: Re: bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:31:57 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:28:25 +0200
> Cc: 24441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Sep 15 2016, Brady Trainor <brady <at> bradyt.com> wrote:
> 
> > If I have a directory `a', and try to rename it `A' in dired, it errors.
> >
> > `(file-error Renaming Invalid argument /tmp/a /tmp/A/a)'. 
> 
> That's because your filesystem is case-insensitve, thus /tmp/A already
> exists.

Right.  This is a duplicate of bug#22300.  As explained there, patches
are welcome to introduce a run-time test for case-sensitivity of the
underlying filesystem, which then could enable on Darwin the same code
as we already use on MS-Windows.
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