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Reputation: 2239

Move entire git directory

I have ~/.emacs.d/ where I have initialized git and connected it with a github repo. Now I realize I need to not have my personal .emacs.d/ be the master doing the pushes, rather, I need to create an "agnostic" depersonalized version of my .emacs.d/ . Can I simply copy the whole ~/.emacs.d/ directory -- .git and all -- to a new location, say, ~/pure/.emacs.d/ and start using that as the base of the original github repo? Or are there things in .git that tie it to that original `~/.emacs.d/ location?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 36

Answers (1)

Samuel Robert
Samuel Robert

Reputation: 11082

No there is no path based tie-ups in git. The directory that contains .git will be the root of your repository. you can move around the root directory without loosing anything.

so just do

cp -R ~/.emacs.d ~/pure/

And you can checkout the branches in ~/pure/.emacs.d

cd ~/pure/.emacs.d && git checkout master

You may use this new path to incorporate "Agnostic" changes while keeping the old commits intact

Upvotes: 1

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