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Indivon
Indivon

Reputation: 1864

Move all of root into a subfolder

In my git repo, the application is located in the root folder, like 

.gitignore
pom.xml
data/
src/
README.md
...

due to a redesign of the application (one part is to introduce a parent pom), it i want to move everything into a subfolder, e.g. called system, and then create a second folder (e.g. called api):

system/
    .gitignore
    pom.xml
    data/
    src/
    README.md
    ...
api/
    src
    ...
...

What is the best way to move everything to system? Is git mv for each file/directory in the root directory enough?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4638

Answers (4)

Triss Healy
Triss Healy

Reputation: 506

To improve on a Markus and tlehman's anser to make it work with sub directoris I made this Where you move everythign to a folder called "subdir"

git ls-files | \
        for f in $(cat -); do
                mkdir -p $(dirname "subdir/$f")
                git mv "$f" "subdir/$f"
        done

Then run

git clean -fd

to remove the old directory entries.

Hint: in Zsh you can span multiple lines with alt + enter. Bash doesn't seem to have an equivalent. (I guess you can end the line with ;\ and you can add more commands)

Upvotes: 0

Markus Hettich
Markus Hettich

Reputation: 574

In my case the solution described in this gist worked for me (and it keeps the subdirectory structure of the moved folders): https://gist.github.com/ajaegers/2a8d8cbf51e49bcb17d5

The relevant command is: for file in $(ls | grep -v 'system'); do git mv $file system; done;

Upvotes: 0

David Deutsch
David Deutsch

Reputation: 19015

Simply move everything (except for the .git directory) into the new folder, run git add --all, and commit.

Upvotes: 1

tlehman
tlehman

Reputation: 5167

I would start by using git ls-files to get all the files tracked by git, and then loop over them, moving each one to the new system/ directory:

git ls-files | for f in $(cat -); do git mv $f system; done

Upvotes: 0

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