The key wording there is "*within the repository* tree". It doesn't change the file system, only the naming of the files, etc. in the repository. Whether this is desired or correct behaviour is … an area of frequent discussion.
My own response to that discussion is to use the fsl wrapper ( http://fossil.0branch.com/fsl/home) and make it do whatever I expect it to do. On 17 April 2015 at 21:48, Tony Papadimitriou <to...@acm.org> wrote: > This is on a Win7 machine (if it matters). A simple way to reproduce > (f = fossil): > > f new xxx.fossil > f o xxx.fossil > mkdir a\a > dir > a\a\xxx > f add a > f com -m "Initial" > f mv a\a b > f close > > Based on help screen, and usual behavior of mv, I would expect > subdirectory a\a to be now known as b, and of course all files below to > move accordingly. But nothing happens. If I move each file separately, it > works. > > This is what the help screen shows: > > Usage: f mv|rename OLDNAME NEWNAME > or: f mv|rename OLDNAME... DIR > > Move or rename one or more files or directories within the repository tree. > You can either rename a file or directory or move it to another > subdirectory. > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- "Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot." --Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
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