convert with filemap, moving into subdirectory

Frank Kingswood frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk
Wed May 21 07:20:32 UTC 2008


James Walker wrote:
> The online help for the --filemap option of hg convert says "To rename 
> from a subdirectory into the root of the repository, use '.' as the path 
> to rename to."  I take it that the filemap file would contain something like
> 
>    rename subdir .
> 
> What if you want to go the other way, move things in the root directory 
> down into a subdirectory?  I'd think you should be able to use
> 
>    rename . subdir
> 
> but it didn't work.  An oversight?

Yeah, I noticed that too. It is slightly un-pretty but I did have a 
patch for that somewhere.

Frank




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