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Androrider
Androrider

Reputation: 1070

Move files to root of git repo

I need to move all files from folder "example" to the root of the git repo. I cannot figure out the command for it. Can anybody help? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2918

Answers (2)

code_dredd
code_dredd

Reputation: 6095

You need to use the git mv command. Look at the commands and resulting output below. This was done in the ZShell, but should work on Bash and others.

/tmp/test
.:
total 4.0K
drwxrwxr-x 2 ray ray 4.0K Sep  2 03:22 example/

./example:
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray 0 Sep  2 03:22 file1.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray 0 Sep  2 03:22 file2.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray 0 Sep  2 03:22 file3.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray 0 Sep  2 03:22 file4.txt
➜  test git:(master) git mv example/* .
➜  test git:(master) ✗ gst
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

        renamed:    example/file1.txt -> file1.txt
        renamed:    example/file2.txt -> file2.txt
        renamed:    example/file3.txt -> file3.txt
        renamed:    example/file4.txt -> file4.txt

➜  test git:(master) ✗ ls -lR
.:
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 ray ray 4096 Sep  2 03:22 example
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file1.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file2.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file3.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file4.txt

./example:
total 0
➜  test git:(master) ✗ git commit -m "Moved example/* to project root"
[master 1999275] Moved example/* to project root
 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 rename example/file1.txt => file1.txt (100%)
 rename example/file2.txt => file2.txt (100%)
 rename example/file3.txt => file3.txt (100%)
 rename example/file4.txt => file4.txt (100%)
➜  test git:(master)

Make sure that you're trying to move the files and not the directory, which could cause that error message:

/tmp/test
total 8.0K
drwxrwxr-x 2 ray ray 4.0K Sep  2 03:29 ex/
drwxrwxr-x 2 ray ray 4.0K Sep  2 03:22 example/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file1.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file2.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file3.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ray ray    0 Sep  2 03:22 file4.txt
➜  test git:(master) git mv example ex
fatal: source directory is empty, source=example, destination=ex/example

Last, but not least, make sure the files within the directory are already being tracked. If you try to git mv files that have never been git added and/or git commited, then you'll also run into this error message.

Upvotes: 0

chelmertz
chelmertz

Reputation: 20601

git mv example/* .
git commit -m "moved example/* to root"

Upvotes: 2

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