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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

#1 lore raw

Hi,

Quoted 10 lines · mat

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.

Quoted 13 lines

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

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#2 lore raw

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

Quoted 47 lines · Chris Packham

Hi,

Quoted 11 lines · mat

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.

Quoted 14 lines

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

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