From: Ville Skyttä Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:48:32 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2] Improve "move the whole tree into a subdirectory" example. Message-ID: <1279691312-31364-1-git-send-email-ville.skytta@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <7vk4opjtdo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Using "|" as the sed substitution delimiter is less likely to clash with desired subdirectory names than "-". Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 020028c..954d195 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -354,11 +354,12 @@ git filter-branch ... C..H --not D git filter-branch ... D..H --not C ---------------------------------------- -To move the whole tree into a subdirectory, or remove it from there: +To move the whole tree into a subdirectory named newsubdir, or remove +it from there: --------------------------------------------------------------- git filter-branch --index-filter \ - 'git ls-files -s | sed "s-\t\"*-&newsubdir/-" | + 'git ls-files -s | sed "s|\t\"*|&newsubdir/|" | GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \ git update-index --index-info && mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD -- 1.7.1.1