+To use this patch, run these commands for a successful build:
+
+ patch -p1 <patches/ignore-case.diff
+ ./configure (optional if already run)
+ make
+
+TODO:
+
+ - Make this code handle multibyte character encodings, and honor the
+ --iconv setting when converting case.
+
+--- old/exclude.c
++++ new/exclude.c
+@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ extern int io_error;
+ extern int local_server;
+ extern int prune_empty_dirs;
+ extern int ignore_perishable;
++extern int ignore_case;
+ extern int delete_mode;
+ extern int delete_excluded;
+ extern int cvs_exclude;
+@@ -580,16 +581,17 @@ static int rule_matches(char *name, stru
+ if (litmatch_array(pattern, strings, slash_handling))
+ return ret_match;
+ } else if (anchored_match) {
+- if (strcmp(name, pattern) == 0)
++ if ((ignore_case ? strcasecmp(name, pattern)
++ : strcmp(name, pattern)) == 0)
+ return ret_match;
+ } else {
+ int l1 = strlen(name);
+ int l2 = strlen(pattern);
+- if (l2 <= l1 &&
+- strcmp(name+(l1-l2),pattern) == 0 &&
+- (l1==l2 || name[l1-(l2+1)] == '/')) {
++ if (l2 <= l1
++ && (ignore_case ? strcasecmp(name + (l1-l2), pattern)
++ : strcmp(name + (l1-l2), pattern)) == 0
++ && (l1 == l2 || name[l1 - (l2+1)] == '/'))
+ return ret_match;
+- }
+ }
+
+ return !ret_match;
+--- old/flist.c
++++ new/flist.c
+@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ extern int inc_recurse;