From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:28:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Improve "move the whole tree into a subdirectory" example. Message-ID: <7vk4opjtdo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1279574238-16649-2-git-send-email-ville.skytta@iki.fi> Ville Skyttä writes: > Using "/" as the sed substitution delimiter is less likely to clash > with desired subdirectory names than "-". Sign-off? The standard substitution in a case like this where you want to avoid using "/" is "|", not "-". > --- > 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..a90e2dd 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