From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:08:57 GMT
Subject: Re: move git repository out of a folder?
Message-ID: <32541b130806041308y43a18b50s5dbca61f96a52823@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1086fb5f0806041303v7856404dxb95b5a450ac30ae1@mail.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