On 2012-02-06 13:38, Michael Dürig wrote:
On Monday, February 6, 2012, Felix Meschberger <fmesc...@adobe.com <mailto:fmesc...@adobe.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 03.02.2012 um 19:44 schrieb Michael Dürig: > >> Invalid moves are exactly those which would result in a node being moved >> to an ancestor/descendant of itself. > > I understand why a move to a descendant of self is invalid. > > But why is a move to an ancestor of self invalid ? Because there is a conflict on the target name. > Eg. "mv /a/b/c /a" resulting in /a/b and /a/c No. This means moving node /a/b/c to the root with name a. But /a exists already.
It certainly means what Felix said in a POXIX mv command. Are you using a different notation here?
