Re: [fossil-users] How to rename a directory

Fossil mv *can* take a directory as argument and it will move every files inside recursively. But the semantic is not exactly like the unix "mv" command and it doesn't works with the "--hard" option (probably a bug). Example, if you have a directory "dir" and want to move it inside a new

Re: [fossil-users] How to rename a directory

Like Andy, I'm sure I've read that file names are what gets tracked - and wasn't even aware anyone had worked on a directory rename function ... At times when a project grows, I do tend to create new subproject directories and move existing files to those directories - and a directory rename

Re: [fossil-users] How to rename a directory

The trunk version. The previous implementation is actually broken except for file renaming. Index: src/add.c == --- src/add.c +++ src/add.c @@ -859,10 +859,12 @@ int vid; int moveFiles; int dryRunFlag; int softFlag;

Re: [fossil-users] How to rename a directory

Thus said Dingyuan Wang on Sun, 06 May 2018 00:37:23 +0800: > The fossil mv command seems can't rename a directory. I thought Fossil only tracked files (which is their complete path relative to the repository checkout) and does not actually track directories by themselves. For

Re: [fossil-users] How to rename a directory

On 5/5/18, Dingyuan Wang wrote: > > The fossil mv command seems can't rename a directory. I thought somebody had fixed that. But maybe not. What version are you using? Renaming directories, or even files, is not something that I do very often, as I find that it disrupts the

[fossil-users] How to rename a directory

Hi, The fossil mv command seems can't rename a directory. eg. `fossil mv --hard test test1` then `fossil status` will give `RENAMEDtest1`. Suppose that there is a file `a/test`. `fossil mv --hard a b` then `fossil status` will give `MISSINGa/test`. `fossil commit` will abort due to