Moving a git repository up one hierarchy level

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So, you want your git repo to look like this:

<projectdir>
    /.git
    /webroot
    /assets

To do this, you must move the existing files in your repo into a new webroot subdirectory.

cd <git repo root>
mkdir webroot
git mv <all your files> webroot
git commit --all -m "moved all existing files to new 'webroot' directory"

Then, on your local filesystem you want to relocate your clone one directory above where it is now:

cd <projectdir>
mv webroot/* .
rmdir webroot

Then you want to add the assets directory (and files) to the git repo:

git add assets
git commit -m "added assets to the repo"

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