File renames that change only case have no effect

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, nodejs, typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start at Nodejs/Product/Nodejs/SharedProject/FileNode.cs around line 296 and reproduce the case-only rename in a Node.js or TypeScript console project. Compare the behavior with the stated C# case, then verify that renaming app.ts to APP.ts changes the project file as expected.

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Description

This appears to be intentional, but it's not clear why: https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/blob/40f2646011d8fd41b275d5f2162d2a93805fd226/Nodejs/Product/Nodejs/SharedProject/FileNode.cs#L296

Repro:

  1. Create a node project (e.g. a TS console app)
  2. Rename a file to uppercase (e.g. app.ts to APP.ts)

Expected: File is renamed
Actual: File is not renamed

Note: Works for C# files.

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