Bug Report: hg {copy, rename, mv} with ".." to an empty directory fails with obscure error

Mike Neuman mcn at EnGarde.com
Sun Oct 7 15:09:11 CDT 2007


Is it really appropriate to delete the source directory? All I'd expect 
"hg mv" to do is move the file, not delete the parent directory.

% cd dir1
% hg mv file1 ../dir2

Should this really remove dir1?

-Mike


> This is what happens when the current directory is whipped out under
> your feet in both FreeBSD and Solaris too, so I'm not sure if there's an
> eay way to fix this, other than running most Hg commands from the base
> of the repository itself, as reported by $(hg root) :-(


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