what version of fossil are you using? this seems to work fine for me, even when only specifying a destination directory without the filename:
[0] [dewey@ macchiato:~] $ fossil version This is fossil version 1.34 [62dcb00e68] 2015-11-02 17:35:44 UTC [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~] $ mkdir -p footest/foo/some/new/directory [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~] $ fossil init footest/foo.fossil project-id: 0e8d0df2a808e05f5aaff16e8c16b2ed8715ce6f server-id: 26d036be1a4ccbeb29af8c71a27448ec8e7a77b7 admin-user: dewey (initial password is "d62c07") [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~] $ cd footest/foo [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ fossil open ../foo.fossil project-name: <unnamed> repository: /Users/dewey/footest/foo/../foo.fossil local-root: /Users/dewey/footest/foo/ config-db: /Users/dewey/.fossil project-code: 0e8d0df2a808e05f5aaff16e8c16b2ed8715ce6f checkout: 167ced8c5e85f6bfa703247bc96596f66021ed6c 2016-05-19 17:48:53 UTC tags: trunk comment: initial empty check-in (user: dewey) check-ins: 1 [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ echo here is a file > file.txt [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ fossil add file.txt ADDED file.txt [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ fossil commit -m '+file.txt' New_Version: 348b7e01f88d636ad7c304d3d349d234ef6ad94c [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ fossil mv file.txt some/new/directory/file.txt RENAME file.txt some/new/directory/file.txt [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ mv file.txt some/new/directory/file.txt [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ fossil commit -m 'mv file.txt' New_Version: 9050a79bffef0eb64d1d7d72de87fc2acfb745ce [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ mkdir -p some/other/new/directory [0] [dewey@ macchiato:~/footest/foo] $ fossil mv some/new/directory/file.txt some/other/new/directory/ RENAME some/new/directory/file.txt some/other/new/directory/file.txt ----- On May 19, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Steve Schow st...@bstage.com wrote: > I am having a little problem with one thing in fossil, what am I doing wrong. > > I have file: > > /foo/bar/is/here > > I want to relocate in the repository src try to: > > /foo/totally/new/location/here > > /foo is the root of the checkout workspace. > > the path /foo/totally/new/location/ doesn’t exist in the repo yet as there > are > no other files checked in there. > > When I try to use: > > fossil mv /foo/bar/is/here /foo/totally/new/location/here > > I get an error: > > file outside of checkout tree: /foo/totally/new/location/here > > > I’m presuming this is because fossil only adds files, not dirs…and since there > are no files yet that deep, fossil doesnt know about the dir I want to put it > in. I have already created the folder in the checkout workspace to move the > actual file to it… And I did try to move the actual file there first > too…didn’t make any difference. > > how do I do this? > > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
