From: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:49:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-mv: succeed even if source is a prefix of destination
Message-ID: <20060816054944.GA5218@c165.ib.student.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608160209150.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:20:32AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> As noted by Fredrik Kuivinen, without this patch, git-mv fails on
> 
> 	git-mv README README-renamed
> 
> because "README" is a prefix of "README-renamed".
> 

Thank you. 'git-mv README README-renamed' works for me too now.

However, there still seems to be some minor problem with git-mv.

    $ git mv t t
    fatal: renaming t failed: Invalid argument
    $ git mv t t/
    fatal: renaming t failed: Invalid argument
    $ git mv t/ t/
    fatal: cannot move directory over file, source=t/, destination=t/
    $ git mv t/ t 
    fatal: cannot move directory over file, source=t/, destination=t/

I kind of expected to get 'can not move directory into itself' in all
of those cases. At least the same error messages should be given in
all cases.

It looks like we need some kind of path normalization before we do
those tests.

- Fredrik