diff --git a/SparkleShare/SparklePlugin.cs b/SparkleShare/SparklePlugin.cs
index dc32ed60..34277b78 100644
--- a/SparkleShare/SparklePlugin.cs
+++ b/SparkleShare/SparklePlugin.cs
@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ namespace SparkleShare {
                 return GetValue ("info", "announcements_url");
             }
         }
+		
+        public Boolean LowerCasePath {
+            get {
+                if (GetValue ("info", "lower_case_path").Equals ("true"))
+                    return true;
+                else
+                    return false;
+            }
+        }
 
 
         private XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument ();
diff --git a/SparkleShare/SparkleSetupController.cs b/SparkleShare/SparkleSetupController.cs
index 45e429ee..da7500ac 100755
--- a/SparkleShare/SparkleSetupController.cs
+++ b/SparkleShare/SparkleSetupController.cs
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ namespace SparkleShare {
             address     = address.Trim ();
             remote_path = remote_path.Trim ();
             remote_path = remote_path.TrimEnd ("/".ToCharArray ());
+
+            if (SelectedPlugin.LowerCasePath)
+                remote_path = remote_path.ToLower ();
 			
             SyncingFolder   = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension (remote_path);
             PreviousAddress = address;
diff --git a/data/plugins/bitbucket.xml.in b/data/plugins/bitbucket.xml.in
index 800b8bcb..302a39aa 100644
--- a/data/plugins/bitbucket.xml.in
+++ b/data/plugins/bitbucket.xml.in
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
         <_description>Free code hosting for Git and Mercurial</_description>
         <icon>bitbucket.png</icon>
         <backend>Git</backend>
+        <lower_case_path>true</lower_case_path>
     </info>
     <address>
       <value>ssh://git@bitbucket.org/</value>