Moving Files

• We just created an HTML file for our silver medals page, here in silver.txt.
• Let's stage the file for committing: git add silver.txt
• And then we'll commit it: git commit -m "Add silver medals"
• Unfortunately, only now do we realize that we needed that file name to be saved with a .html extension, not a .txt extension.
• But we've already committed the file under the wrong name! How can we fix this?

The git mv command

• Git offers the git mv command to let you move files around.
• After you type git mv, you need to provide the name of the file you want to move, silver.txt, and the file name you want to move it to, silver.html.

git mv silver.txt silver.html

• If we run ls now, we'll see that the silver.txt file has been moved to silver.html in our working directory.
• Now let's try running git status...
• We'll see "renamed: silver.txt -> silver.html" in the "Changes to be committed" section.
• That means the file renaming has been staged.
• Now we just need to commit the change: git commit -m "Rename silver.txt to silver.html"

$ git mv silver.txt silver.html
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#       renamed:    silver.txt -> silver.html
#
$ git commit -m "Rename silver.txt to silver.html"
[master 9505066] Rename silver.txt to silver.html
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 rename silver.txt => silver.html (100%)