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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: move git repository out of a folder?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:07:24 -0400
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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.