Pull unable to move a used DDIC object to another package

[sandraros]

I have the following issue to do a pull which solely consists in moving the DDIC data element ZTESTDATAELEMENT to a sub-package (demos).

To reproduce (latest version of abapGit used: 1.110.0):

1. New Online repository https://github.com/sandraros/test-abapgit
2. Pull
3. Switch to branch change-package-assignment
   
4. We can see the warning "Changed package assignment of DTEL ZTESTDATAELEMENT" from /src/ztestdataelement.dtel.xml to /src/demos/ztestdataelement.dtel.xml. Not sure if it's normal to have Stage instead of Pull.
5. Advanced>Selective Pull
6. Popup to "Delete and recreate local object" (so I guess to recreate it in package $abap2xlsx_demos)
   
7. Popup "Select the objects which should be overwritten"
   
8. "Object DTEL ZTESTDATAELEMENT has dependencies and must be deleted manually", "Deletion of DTEL ZTESTDATAELEMENT failed", "Error during uninstall. Check the log."
   
9. Pull Log
   
10. Call Stack
    

So, I deleted manually the DDIC data element ZTESTDATAELEMENT (to do that, I had to first delete the object which was using this data element, hopefully only one class ZCL_TEST_ABAPGIT) and did a pull which worked perfectly.

[mbtools]

It's a known issue. Changing package assignment is handled as "delete + re-create". In your case, the delete does not work due to dependencies.

See #4274. The solution is to move objects to other packages via a change of TADIR (only if the object itself has not changed).

I will work on a fix.

[mbtools]

#4980 should fix this. Please test again.

[sandraros]

Works nicely, thank you! 👍