# git mv - exclude source / create target directory option

1 messages from 2016-04-04 to 2016-04-04. Participants: Boettger, Heiko.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41921

## Boettger, Heiko, 2016-04-04 06:45

Subject: git mv - exclude source / create target directory option
Message-ID: <8C0042D8869AEA4AA334B49AFBBCEF82B53D470F@TUT-EX02-PV.KSTG.corp>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8C0042D8869AEA4AA334B49AFBBCEF82B53D470F%40TUT-EX02-PV.KSTG.corp

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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

STORZ Endoskop Produktions GmbH
Niederlassung Schaffhausen
Schneckenackerstr. 1
8200 Schaffhausen
Switzerland

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