Hg: How to move files (to subfolder) without losing history?

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Alex P. picture Alex P. · Feb 26, 2014 · Viewed 31.5k times · Source

How to move files (to subfolder) without losing their history?

In my Mercurial repository (I mean the folder with the .hg in it) I have MyProject/ folder with all project files. Now I need to create src/ folder inside and move all files to it (from MyProject/ to MyProject/src/). How can I do it without losing all history?

Answer

mo. picture mo. · Feb 28, 2014

Since you have a "tortoisehg" tag, I figured I'd explain the way I do this using the GUI.

Usually, I just rename/move files in my IDE, or from windows explorer, then when I go to commit, THG will show a bunch of (?) unknown files and (R) removed files. Just right click on any of the files and choose "Detect Renames...", then click the "Find Renames" button.

You might have to adjust the "Min Similarity" slider until you get all the files you want and only the files you want, but it's usually very straightforward.

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