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mv: improve overwrite warning

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When we try to "git mv" over an existing file, the error
message is fairly informative:

  $ git mv one two
  fatal: destination exists, source=one, destination=two

When the user forces the overwrite, we give a warning:

  $ git mv -f one two
  warning: destination exists; will overwrite!

This is less informative, but still sufficient in the simple
rename case, as there is only one rename happening.

But when moving files from one directory to another, it
becomes useless:

  $ mkdir three
  $ touch one two three/one
  $ git add .
  $ git mv one two three
  fatal: destination exists, source=one, destination=three/one
  $ git mv -f one two three
  warning: destination exists; will overwrite!

The first message is helpful, but the second one gives us no
clue about what was overwritten. Let's mention the name of
the destination file:

  $ git mv -f one two three
  warning: overwriting 'three/one'

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2011-12-12 16:54:17 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 77471646d3
commit cd40b05d13
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@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
* check both source and destination
*/
if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode) || S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
warning(_("%s; will overwrite!"), bad);
warning(_("overwriting '%s'"), dst);
bad = NULL;
} else
bad = _("Cannot overwrite");