From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Sean Brown <seanmichaelbrown@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: move git repository out of a folder?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:07:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080604200724.GV12896@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086fb5f0806041303v7856404dxb95b5a450ac30ae1@mail.gmail.com>
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
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-04 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-04 20:03 move git repository out of a folder? Sean Brown
2008-06-04 20:07 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-06-04 20:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-04 20:18 ` Sean Brown
2008-06-04 20:08 ` Avery Pennarun
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