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Re: Moving a directory with history from one repository to another while renaming

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APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 21, 2007, 13:57 UTC
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<200706211457.29030.andyparkins@gmail.com>
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On Thursday 2007 June 21, Jeff King wrote:
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> You can do this much more efficiently by just operating on the index.
> Something like:
>
> git-filter-branch --index-filter \
>  'git-ls-files -s | sed -n 's/change/paths/p' | git-update-index
> --index-info' \ directorymoved
:-D  Even better.  I am definitely in the "fan of git-filter-branch" camp.

Thanks for sharing that line; I've actually found it instructive for more than just git-filter-branch. I definitely hadn't appreciated the fact that the index can be so easily manipulated.

Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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