Today I had the case that I wanted to rename a subfolder in a git-project at work. “Easy” I thought. Just rename the file in finder, stage all un-staged changes in SourceTree, commit and push.
But… the only thing that happened was that SourceTree complained about not being able to find files in the old foldername. So I googled a bit and found a solution.
How to really do it
Just use git mv on the shell!
The syntax is git mv {source} {dest}
git mv sourcefolder/ destinationfolder/
git commit -m "renamed sourcefolder to destinationfolder"
[master 786609a] bla
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
rename {sourcefolder => destinationfolder}/examplefile.txt (100%)
So as we see… It’s still easy to move folders in git-repositories but not trivial because we have to use the shell.