Re: move git repository out of a folder?

["Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On 6/4/08, Sean Brown <seanmichaelbrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>  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?

You could just make a commit which renames all the files into the
parent folder.  This is relatively harmless and correctly reflects
what really happened.

You might also want to look at git-filter-branch and its
"--subdirectory-filter" option.

Have fun,

Avery