Committing moved files in Subversion

Question

I moved a file from one directory to another but wanted to preserve the versioning history, using SlikSVN, the command line client:

svn move old\dir\File.ext new\dir\File.ext

What I get when I run svn status is

D       old\dir\File.ext
        > moved to new\dir\File.ext
...
A  +    new\dir\File.ext
        > moved from old\dir\File.ext

When committing should I svn ci both the deleted and the new file location or just the new location and svn will know to make a move internally?

Answer 1

• You must
• Committing always from WC-root (if all changes related to single logical action) is good bullet-proof policy