Renaming a file doesn't work

[Chris Rusby]

I'm trying to rename a file from tradinghistory/settlementReports/2013/20130327 Report_Statement (1).csv to tradinghistory/settlementReports/2013/20130327 Report_Statement.csv. When I do this via the move command, it moves it to tradinghistory/history/settlementReports/2013/20130327 Report_Statement.csv - i.e. it adds an extraneous "history" directory in the target. If I rename source files from within IntelliJ, this works, but the same issue happens within SourceTree. Thanks

[Chris Rusby · Accepted solution]

Created https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREE-1669 but I don't think I have the ability to assign to you. Thanks!

[KieranA]

Hi Chris,

I've just tried this using your exact same file structure and filenames and have been unable to reproduce the problem you're describing. Could you re-test this? Are you sure there isn't another folder tradinghistory/history which has the same file structure and you're actually trying to rename that a file in that directory instead?

Thanks in advance

[Chris Rusby]

Hi Kieran, Thanks for your reply. It's 100% repeatable, which is good and bad I guess! I have a set of 4 jpgs which I can send you to show the problem, maybe you could let me know where I can upload them? Also, I suspect this isn't the right forum to be raising bug reports, so please let me know if there's a better place for me to be reporting this. Thanks, Chris

[KieranA]

Hi Chris,

You're right, JAC is where we have bug reports over at jira.atlassian.com. The project name is SRCTREE and you can assign it to me. Just detail as much as you can and we can go from there.

Thanks!

[MikeL]

Why don't you use your file manager to rename/move the file? You then will see an untracked and a missing file, but after committing both, the history will be linked.

[Chris Rusby]

Yes I can do this, but I don't see how it's going to keep track of file history. For instance if I have FileA.java and FileB.java, if I delete these and add FileC.java and FileD.java I think it would be pretty amazing if SourceTree could figure out whether FileA.java was renamed to FileC.java or FileD.java....

[MikeL]

Not SourceTree is amazing in detected renamed file history, but Git is - and hence every Git client. Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094269/