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Reputation:

How to move a file back to the parent folder

I moved a .txt file to another sub-folder in the parent folder using git mv someName.txt NameOfFolder/someName.txt function but I cant seem to get it back, only way I can succeed is by doing it by File Explorer. What do I use to move it to previous folder/parent folder. I'm only learning Git now as you can see.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5094

Answers (2)

Viktor Sec
Viktor Sec

Reputation: 3075

You can reference the parent folder with ...

Navigate to the NameOfFolder and run mv someName.txt ../someName.txt

See example:

parentfolder $ mv file.txt subfolder/file.txt
parentfolder $ cd subfolder
subfolder $ ls
file.txt
subfolder $ mv file.txt ../file.txt
subfolder $ ls
// empty
subfolder $ cd ..
parentfolder $ ls
subfolder
file.txt

Upvotes: 2

Samuel Robert
Samuel Robert

Reputation: 11072

Do a git reset if haven't made any commit after you moved the file and you made no other changes to the repository

git reset --hard HEAD

Or you can do

git mv yourfile path/to/destination

Upvotes: 0

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