Re: Using filter-branch to move repo contents in subdirectory

From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 9, 2010, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=TeJvF+swpMWddDtA7jh4XWedQ+FjigEdRYkx_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik2dL5jrEjZe0LB6Y4_PEwRt-7t_5CG7gup3pnV@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:37, Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm trying to use git filter-branch to move all contents of a repo
> into a subdirectory of the repo root. The git filter-branch man page
> has the following example:
>
>       To move the whole tree into a subdirectory, or remove it from there:
>
>           git filter-branch --index-filter \
>                   '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

I'm trying to do this with another repo now and am getting a different error message:

$ git filter-branch --index-filter \
    'git ls-files -s | gsed "s-\t\"*-&sftlib/-" |
        GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \
            git update-index --index-info &&
    mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD
Rewrite b3100fb24a7eb2f349801f3b87cf995dc3d14bba (1/44)mv:
/Users/ram/git/eah2/.git-rewrite/t/../index.new: No such file or
directory
index filter failed: git ls-files -s | gsed "s-\t\"*-&sftlib/-" |
GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new git update-index --index-info && mv
$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new $GIT_INDEX_FILE
$

Any ideas?

This is on Mac OS X 10.6.4, with git-1.7.2.1, and GNU sed 4.2.1

Cheers

Adam