bzr mv --after and bzr mv --auto don't work

[Nicholas Allen]

I solved it by making a new branch of my project and then copying the
files over from the old branch and then telling Bazaar where I moved the
files manually. I'm not sure if this is the best way but at least it
worked ;-)

Nick

Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently done some large refactorings. Thousands of files have
> moved into new directories that are unknown to Bazaar. I was hoping I
> could use bzr mv --auto to guess all the files that moved but this does
> nothing. Then I tried manually telling Bazaar where I moved stuff with
> bzr mv --after but this always prints an error message saying the the
> source location is not versioned (I thought that was the point of the
> --after option).
>
> When I do a status Bazaar tells me that many files have been removed and
> that there are a bunch of directories it does not know about. I would
> expect that if I do "bzr mv --after some/file/that/is/removed
> some/unknown/directory" that this would cause Bazaar to recognize the
> file has moved. It doesn't make a difference if I add the unknown
> directory with the --no-recurse option either.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick
>
>