From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: [BUG] git mv file directory/ creates the file directory Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:04:06 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 02 11:04:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VnQMW-0003hl-Jr for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:04:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752777Ab3LBKEO (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 05:04:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:55810 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752606Ab3LBKEL (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 05:04:11 -0500 Received: from globule.imag.fr (globule.imag.fr [129.88.34.238]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id rB2A46jG001584 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:04:06 +0100 Received: from anie.imag.fr (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) (authenticated bits=0) by globule.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id rB2A460p026116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:04:07 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:04:06 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: rB2A46jG001584 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1386583447.91744@P/TSuom3hzwsjKLy83x86A Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, When directory/ does not exist, I'd expect this to fail: git mv existing-file directory/ (note the trailing slash, to make it clear that directory/ is a directory). Unix's mv does fail: $ mv existing-file directory/ mv: cannot move `existing-file' to `directory/': Not a directory Instead, "git mv" seems to do the equivalent of git mv existing-file directory # without trailing slash -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/