From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:30:26 GMT
Subject: Re: split directories into branches
Message-ID: <CAH_OBieNO-fSW-ncsezZ5KG2c80fY-rUU6OPGgw0RJMGcpi+KQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87eg79qcld.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> $ git filter-branch --tree-filter "shopt -s extglob && mkdir -p
>> cookbooks/base_sys && mv !(cookbooks) cookbooks/base_sys"
>
> extglob changes the parser, you need to set that on a separate line.
>

by "separate line", I'm guessing you mean outside of the filter-branch
eval? Something like this?
shopt -s extglob; declare -a f=(!(cookbooks)); git filter-branch
--tree-filter "mkdir -p cookbooks/base_sys && mv $f
cookbooks/base_sys"

(don't have access to the repo atm and am curious if this is what you mean)