git mv - exclude source / create target directory option

Hi,

sometimes I want to reorganize the content of a directory and simply move everything into a subdirectory. This seems to be more complicated than it should be. Since git mv requires the destination to exist, I need to create the target directory first. Unfortunately this results in git mv * to include that directory which results in an error since moving a directory into itself is not possible. My current workaround is rather long by using extglob:

mkdir -p newfolder/subfolder shopt -s extglob git mv !(newfolder) newfolder/subfolder shopt -u extglob

For my usecase it would be much easier to archive that target by have a parameter to simply create the target if it isn't existing.

Best Regards Heiko Böttger

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