Moving alt files to ~/.config/yadm/alt after cloning deletes those files from yadm status

[kkew3]

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I'm a starter on yadm. Basically what happened is that I tried to move the alternate files to ~/.config/yadm/alt after cloning, and then yadm said I have deleted those files; and apparently that's not what I intended to do. I'm completely lost. Can someone help? Thank you so much!

Here is my shell history with outputs:

~% yadm clone myserver:~/git/Dotfiles.git
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit (use -u to show untracked files)
Skipping alt /Users/kkew3/Library##os.Darwin/Application Support/Code/User/snippets/python.json as /Users/kkew3/Library/Application Support/Code/User/snippets/python.json exists
Skipping alt /Users/kkew3/Library##os.Darwin/texmf/tex/latex/local/question.sty as /Users/kkew3/Library/texmf/tex/latex/local/question.sty exists
Skipping alt /Users/kkew3/Library##os.Darwin/texmf/tex/latex/local/tikzlibrarybayesnet.code.tex as /Users/kkew3/Library/texmf/tex/latex/local/tikzlibrarybayesnet.code.tex exists
...

~% mkdir ~/.config/yadm/alt && mv 'Library##os.Darwin' ~/.config/yadm/alt
~% yadm status
 D "Library##os.Darwin/Application Support/Code/User/snippets/python.json"
 D Library##os.Darwin/texmf/tex/latex/local/question.sty
 D Library##os.Darwin/texmf/tex/latex/local/tikzlibrarybayesnet.code.tex
...

[erijo]

The alt files should be tracked by yadm (i.e. git) so instead of doing plain mv ... you should do yadm mv ... (or yadm rm <old> + yadm add <new>) and then commit the move.

[kkew3]

Thank you so much for your explanation! One more question: is there any option so that when cloning the alt files go directly to ~/.config/yadm/alt? Currently all the alt files clutter under the home directory, and it takes me hours to clean them up.

[erijo]

If you commit and yadm push the changes then they'll be there the next time you clone or pull.