How can I move a directory in a Git repo for all commits?

by

You can use the subdirectory filter to achieve this

 $ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter blog/ -- --all

EDIT 1: If you don’t want to effectively make _posts the root, use a tree-filter instead:

 $ git filter-branch --tree-filter 'mv blog/_posts .' HEAD

EDIT 2: If blog/_posts did not exist in some of the commits, the above will fail. Use this instead:

 $ git filter-branch --tree-filter 'test -d blog/_posts && mv blog/_posts . || echo "Nothing to do"' HEAD

More Related Contents:

  1. How to change the author and committer name and e-mail of multiple commits in Git?
  2. Detach (move) subdirectory into separate Git repository
  3. Remove sensitive files and their commits from Git history
  4. How do you fix a bad merge, and replay your good commits onto a fixed merge?
  5. Change first commit of project with Git? [duplicate]
  6. How do I remove the old history from a git repository?
  7. How to substitute text from files in git history?
  8. Completely remove files from Git repo and remote on GitHub
  9. How do I change the author and committer name/email for multiple commits?
  10. Detach many subdirectories into a new, separate Git repository
  11. Splitting a set of files within a git repo into their own repository, preserving relevant history [duplicate]
  12. Split large Git repository into many smaller ones
  13. How to split a git repository while preserving subdirectories?
  14. How do I run a code formatter over my source without modifying git history?
  15. Could I change my name and surname in all previous commits?
  16. How can I rewrite history so that all files, except the ones I already moved, are in a subdirectory?
  17. How to extract one file with commit history from a Git repo with index-filter & co?
  18. Update a development team with rewritten Git repo history, removing big files
  19. Running filter-branch over a range of commits
  20. Why has git-filter-branch not rewritten tags?
  21. Rewrite history git filter-branch create / split into submodules / subprojects
  22. Can tags be automatically moved after a git filter-branch and rebase?
  23. git rm – fatal: pathspec did not match any files
  24. Git – remove commits with empty changeset using filter-branch
  25. My Git repository is in the wrong root directory. Can I move it? (../ instead of ./)
  26. Moving from CVS to Git: $Id$ equivalent?
  27. GIT: Checkout to a specific folder
  28. Copy a git repo without history
  29. git clone can’t resolve proxy
  30. How do I make git merge’s default be –no-ff –no-commit?

Leave a Comment