Misleading error message on a failed `git mv`

Thanks for git, and happy new year. Here is what I believe to be a bug in an error message

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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

git init

touch file

git add file

git mv file folder/file

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

Either creating folder, or stating that folder does not exists

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

Error message is

fatal: renaming 'file' failed: No such file or directory

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?

The error message seems to indicate that file does not exists. It actually exists. The destination directory does not exists and is the one that should be mentionned.

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[System Info]

git version:

git version 2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog

cpu: x86_64

no commit associated with this build

sizeof-long: 8

sizeof-size_t: 8

shell-path: /bin/sh

feature: fsmonitor--daemon

uname: Darwin 22.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.2.0: Fri Nov 11 02:03:51 PST 2022; root:xnu-8792.61.2~4/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 x86_64

compiler info: clang: 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.5)

libc info: no libc information available

$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash

[Enabled Hooks]

Regards, Arthur