Fossil SCM
Missing instructions on "fossil mv" manpage
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· opened 11 years, 4 months ago
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- Dec. 7, 2014 12:58 a.m.
The rename command documentation is too vague, it seems to suggest that fossil mv is enough to do a rename. It states clearly that fossil won't alter the filesystem to do the actual rename/move operations, but the fact is that the operations are expected to be done before requesting it to fossil, or the request is not going to be honoured.
Reference to the documentation:
http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/help?cmd=rename
I don't know if this is the source for the manpage and other authoritative documentation. The problem should be fixed on the authoritative documentation.
I found some parts of this discussion useful to understand what was going on:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1907837/renaming-directories-with-the-fossil-dvcs
Comments (1)
The rename command documentation is too vague, it seems to suggest that fossil mv is enough to do a rename. It states clearly that fossil won't alter the filesystem to do the actual rename/move operations, but the fact is that the operations are expected to be done before requesting it to fossil, or the request is not going to be honoured.
Reference to the documentation:
http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/help?cmd=rename
I don't know if this is the source for the manpage and other authoritative documentation. The problem should be fixed on the authoritative documentation.
I found some parts of this discussion useful to understand what was going on:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1907837/renaming-directories-with-the-fossil-dvcs