Re: move git repository out of a folder?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 4, 2008, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20080604200724.GV12896@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1086fb5f0806041303v7856404dxb95b5a450ac30ae1@mail.gmail.com>

Sean Brown <seanmichaelbrown@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.