Fossil

The rename command documentation is too vague, it seems to suggest that fossil mv is enough to do a rename. It states clearly that fossil won't alter the filesystem to do the actual rename/move operations, but the fact is that the operations are expected to be done *before* requesting it to fossil, or the request is not going to be honoured.

Reference to the documentation:

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/help?cmd=rename

I don't know if this is the source for the manpage and other authoritative documentation. The problem should be fixed on the authoritative documentation.

I found some parts of this discussion useful to understand what was going on:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1907837/renaming-directories-with-the-fossil-dvcs