Add a "git rename" to help with - surprise surprise - renames

It's stupid.  We'd want to rename directories too, but this doesn't do
that yet - easy enough to do per se, we just need to carefully list all
the pathnames that got moved (and remember to ignore the files that
weren't tracked but are in the subdirectory that got moved).

Doing the directory case will require a bit more scripting.. Something like

	oldfiles=($(git-ls-files | grep '^$src'))
	newfiles=($(git-ls-files | sed ':^$src: s:^$src:$dst:'))
	mv $src $dst && git-update-cache --add --remove -- "${oldfiles[@]}" "${newfiles[@]}"

might do it, except it needs to be done right, and carefully.  Methinks
perl is probably better at this. Hint hint..

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f87225d5991a040e062d51a157b86da0d780f985..e92518f857f650fed6a0a2abc632bb93a7072835 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ SCRIPTS=git git-apply-patch-script git-merge-one-file-script git-prune-script \
        gitk git-cherry git-rebase-script git-relink-script git-repack-script \
        git-format-patch-script git-sh-setup-script git-push-script \
        git-branch-script git-parse-remote git-verify-tag-script \
-       git-ls-remote-script git-clone-dumb-http
+       git-ls-remote-script git-clone-dumb-http git-rename-script
 
 PROG=   git-update-cache git-diff-files git-init-db git-write-tree \
        git-read-tree git-commit-tree git-cat-file git-fsck-cache \

diff --git a/git-rename-script b/git-rename-script
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..3952382
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-rename-script
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive"
+
+[ -f "$1" ] || [ -h "$1" ] || die "git rename: bad source"
+[ -e "$2" ] && die "git rename: destination already exists"
+mv -- "$1" "$2" && git-update-cache --add --remove -- "$1" "$2"