#732428 git mv: moving a file up (..) from a submodule fails

Package:
git
Source:
git
Description:
fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Submitter:
Jonathan Nieder
Date:
2013-12-17 22:57:07 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#732428#5
Date:
2013-12-17 22:51:56 UTC
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From #git:

	xrq | I'm confused.  when you move files from one repository
	    | inside another down a level, how do you tell git not to
	    | throw the "fatal: '..' is outside repository" error?

It should presumably act like mv + git rm + git add.