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quarks

Reputation: 35282

Git mv folders up

I need to move folders up with Git without losing history of Java codes.

Currently:

desktop: ~/projects/github/trunk/myapp

The .git folder is there in trunk not in myapp (due to I just imported this repo)

How to I make the .git move to my myapp folder or do a git mv to move all the files and folder from myapp to trunk where the .git directory is.

Either case is fine. I just need to make sure that the history is retained where when we browse history of file in Git we can see it still there.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 320

Answers (2)

Dinever
Dinever

Reputation: 690

Since the .git folder is in trunk, there is no need to mv the .git folder into my app, you can simply use:

git rm -rf --cached <file/folder you won't need>

to remove the file/folder, which you don't want to be shown in repository, in trunk from the index. (this step is not a must-have)

then:

git add --all app/*

to add all the files under app to the repository, then:

git mv app/* ./
git rm -rf app

to move all of the files/folder from myapp to trunk, and remove the empty myapp folder.

then commit the change:

git commit -m 'Moving the Java codes'

then rename folder trunk to myapp:

mv ~/projects/github/trunk/ ~/projects/github/myapp/

Best Regards

Upvotes: 1

Oliver Charlesworth
Oliver Charlesworth

Reputation: 272517

I would assume that the following is sufficient:

git mv myapp/* .
git commit -m "Moved stuff"

Upvotes: 0

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