{"thread":{"id":"41043","subject":"Possible bug in \"git mv\"","startedAt":"2015-12-20T00:34:29Z","lastAt":"2015-12-20T00:34:29Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["David Hirsch"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"274765","messageId":"E9114719-0012-4C70-BC02-EF0DAF196C5B@me.com","threadId":"41043","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Possible bug in \"git mv\"","fromName":"David Hirsch","fromEmail":"dhirsch@me.com","sentAt":"2015-12-20T00:34:29Z","receivedAt":"2015-12-20T00:34:29Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dhirsch@me.com","avatar":null},"body":"I think this might be a bug, albeit a minor one:\n\nIf you have a folder containing only files not tracked by git, and you try to use “git mv” to relocate it, then (at least on my machine, running git version 2.6.3), I get this error message:\n\n\"fatal: source directory is empty, source=SRCDIR, destination=DESTDIR”\n\nwhen a better message might be something like:\n\n“no files in directory are under version control, source=SRCDIR, destination=DESTDIR”\n\nDavid Hirsch\ndhirsch@me.com\nhttp://davehirsch.com\n\n-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\nComment: GPGTools - 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