diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 12fcf633b..dcf109346 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Andreas Mross
 Andrew Everitt
 Anil K. Vijendran
 Anli Shundi
+Anthony Goubard
 Anthony Green
 Antoine Levy-Lambert
 Anton Mazkovoi
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index f38b614f7..62c9e0a75 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ Fixed bugs:
 * <unzip> and <untar> now correctly merge multiple nested patternsets.
   Bugzilla Report 38973.
 
+* On case-insensitive filesystems, a <move> to change filename case
+  erroneously deleted the "destination" file before attempting to rename
+  the source file.  Bugzilla 37701.
+
 Other changes:
 --------------
 * took in bugzilla report 39320.
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
index 07d3dbf40..f76da561f 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright 2000-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -373,7 +373,8 @@ public class Move extends Copy {
             if (parent != null && !parent.exists()) {
                 parent.mkdirs();
             }
-            if (destFile.isFile() && !destFile.delete()) {
+            if (destFile.isFile() && !destFile.equals(sourceFile)
+                && !destFile.delete()) {
                 throw new BuildException("Unable to remove existing "
                                          + "file " + destFile);
             }