# Newbie question: how to move bunch of files 3 messages from 2010-11-08 to 2010-11-09. Participants: mat, Chris Packham, Matthieu Stigler. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25679 ## mat, 2010-11-08 20:48 Subject: Newbie question: how to move bunch of files Message-ID: <4CD86204.1000805@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CD86204.1000805%40gmail.com ``` Dear list I am very sorry to bother you with such a simple question, but I searched for a while on the net and did not come up with any satisfying answer :-( I just want to move a bunch of files (from /R to /pkg/R ), but get the error: $ git mv R/*.R pkg/R/ fatal: not under version control, source=R/nll_MSAR3.R, destination=pkg/R/nll_MSAR3.R What do I do wrong? Would you kindly indicate me what I should do? Thanks a lot and sorry again! Matthieu PS: I am using git 1.7.0.4 on Ubuntu 10.4 ``` ## Chris Packham, 2010-11-08 22:14 Subject: Re: Newbie question: how to move bunch of files Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTik9aQaV1OvARuPchekYpQFANu-%2Bk3c2n3wamzXh%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4CD86204.1000805@gmail.com> ``` Hi, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:48 AM, mat wrote: > Dear list > > I am very sorry to bother you with such a simple question, but I searched > for a while on the net and did not come up with any satisfying answer :-( > > I just want to move a bunch of files (from /R to /pkg/R ), but get the > error: > $ git mv R/*.R pkg/R/ > fatal: not under version control, source=R/nll_MSAR3.R, > destination=pkg/R/nll_MSAR3.R This is the kind of error you get from asking git to move a file it isn't tracking. Have you got generated files in the same location as your repository? I get the same kind of thing if I ask git to move generated files git mv foo/*.pyc bar/ fatal: not under version control, source=foo/ast.pyc, destination=bar/ast.pyc To get around this you could change your wildcard to only include files you are tracking or specify them individually. Alternatively you could just use 'mv R/*.R pkg/R/' then 'git rm' the old files and 'git add' the new files you want to track, git should detect the renames after the 'git rm' and 'git add'. As a final alternative you could also 'git clean -d' to remove the untracked files but be careful with that as you may not have added some files you are meaning to track. > What do I do wrong? Would you kindly indicate me what I should do? > > Thanks a lot and sorry again! > > Matthieu > > PS: I am using git 1.7.0.4 on Ubuntu 10.4 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ``` ## Matthieu Stigler, 2010-11-09 10:22 Subject: [SOLVED] Newbie question: how to move bunch of files Message-ID: <4CD920D8.5040202@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CD920D8.5040202%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Dear Chris Thanks a lot for your fast and relevant reply! This was indeed the case, i.e. non-tracek files in the folder, whiohc hindered to move it properly! I had not understood it from the error message, but then I removed those and it worked! Thanks!! Matthieu Le 08. 11. 10 23:14, Chris Packham a écrit : > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:48 AM, mat wrote: > >> Dear list >> >> I am very sorry to bother you with such a simple question, but I searched >> for a while on the net and did not come up with any satisfying answer :-( >> >> I just want to move a bunch of files (from /R to /pkg/R ), but get the >> error: >> $ git mv R/*.R pkg/R/ >> fatal: not under version control, source=R/nll_MSAR3.R, >> destination=pkg/R/nll_MSAR3.R >> > This is the kind of error you get from asking git to move a file it > isn't tracking. > > Have you got generated files in the same location as your repository? > I get the same kind of thing if I ask git to move generated files > > git mv foo/*.pyc bar/ > fatal: not under version control, source=foo/ast.pyc, destination=bar/ast.pyc > > To get around this you could change your wildcard to only include > files you are tracking or specify them individually. Alternatively you > could just use 'mv R/*.R pkg/R/' then 'git rm' the old files and 'git > add' the new files you want to track, git should detect the renames > after the 'git rm' and 'git add'. As a final alternative you could > also 'git clean -d' to remove the untracked files but be careful with > that as you may not have added some files you are meaning to track. > > >> What do I do wrong? Would you kindly indicate me what I should do? >> >> Thanks a lot and sorry again! >> >> Matthieu >> >> PS: I am using git 1.7.0.4 on Ubuntu 10.4 >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> ```