Re: move git repository out of a folder?

["Sean Brown" <seanmichaelbrown@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> Sean Brown <seanmichaelbrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Let's say I've got this directory structure of source files:
>> >
>> > /folderA
>> > /folderA/sourcecode/
>> > /folderA/sourcecode/file1.txt
>> > /folderA/sourcecode/file2.txt
>> > etc...
>> >
>> > When putting the project under git source control, I did this:
>> >
>> > cd /folderA
>> > git init
>> >
>> > So now when colleagues clone my repository, they get the source code
>> > in the "sourcecode" folder.  I'd like to just make the repository
>> > simply give them the source files, not in a directory.  In other
>> > words, as if I had originally been smart and done this:
>> >
>> > cd /folderA/sourcecode
>> > git init
>> >
>> > Can I make that happen without losing all of the history?
>>
>> git mv sourcecode/* .
>> rmdir sourcecode
>> git commit
>
> What he said.  Git should automatically detect renames.  When pulling
> code from someone who hasn't made this change yet, you might need to
> use 'subtree' merge strategy, as currently git would put files added
> as sourcecode/filename in sourcecode/filename, not as top dir filename
> when pulling from side branch.
>
> If you want to _change history_, as if you made correct decision at
> the start (and convince everyone to reclone, or to do the same
> surgery; or if you for the time being are solo contributor to the
> project), you can use git-filter-branch (formerly cg-admin-rewrite-hist ;-).
>

Thank you Shawn and Jakub.  This worked perfectly.

Sean