- Removing Files 4:14
- Removing Files 3 objectives
- Moving Files 2:14
- Moving Files 3 objectives
- Unstaging Changes 1:51
- Unstaging Files 2 objectives
- Discarding File Modifications 2:59
- Discarding File Changes 2 objectives
- Undoing File Deletions 1:18
- Recovering Deleted Files 3 objectives
- Commit SHAs and Undoing Commits 5:06
- Undoing Commits 2 objectives
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Moving Files
2:14Just as the "git rm" command lets you remove files from a repo, the "git mv" command lets you move (or rename) files within a repo.
We just created an HTML file for our
silver medals page, here in silver.txt.
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With our work saved,
we can close our editor.
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Let's click back in the console,
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make sure that we're in our
repository directory, cd medals.
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And let's save the file for
committing, git add silver.txt.
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And then, we'll commit it,
git commit -m "Add silver medals".
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Unfortunately, only now do we realize
that we needed that file name
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to be saved with a .html extension,
not a .txt extension.
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But we've already committed
the file under the wrong name.
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How can we fix this?
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Git offers the git move command
to let you move files around.
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It's typed as git mv, but
the mv is pronounced as move.
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Like git rm, the name and
syntax of the git mv command
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is based on an important Unix command that
does the same thing, but outside of git.
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After you type git mv, you need to provide
the name of the file you want to move,
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silver.txt, and the name of the file
you want to move it to, silver.html.
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Hit Enter to run the command.
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There won't be any output.
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As usual, that's a good thing.
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It means the command worked.
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If we run ls now,
we'll see that the silver.txt file
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has been moved to silver.html
in our working directory.
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Now, let's try running git status.
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We'll see, renamed,
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silver.txt to silver.html in
the changes to be committed section.
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That means the file
renaming has been staged.
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Now, we just need to commit the change,
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git commit -m "Rename
silver.txt to silver.html".
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Let's run git status again.
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And we'll see there are no
uncommitted changes.
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If we run ls, we'll see the file
is still named silver.html.
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And when our git repository is cloned,
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that's the file name that
will be in the clone as well.
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