Hi, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:48 AM, mat <matthieu.stigler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html