Re: Moving a directory with history from one repository to another while renaming

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

On Thursday 2007 June 21, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

You can do this much more efficiently by just operating on the index.
Something like:

git-filter-branch --index-filter \
 'git-ls-files -s | sed -n 's/change/paths/p' | git-update-index
--index-info' \ directorymoved

:-D  Even better.  I am definitely in the "fan of git-filter-branch" camp.

Thanks for sharing that line; I've actually found it instructive for more than 
just git-filter-branch.  I definitely hadn't appreciated the fact that the 
index can be so easily manipulated.

You have to adapt the line minimally: As is, it will possibly catch the 
wrong names, and it does not _move_ the directory, but rather _copy_ it.

So I think something like

git-ls-files -s | sed "s-\t-&newsubdir/-" |
  GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_INDEX_FILE".new git-update-index --index-info &&
mv "$GIT_INDEX_FILE".new "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"

is needed.

Ciao,
Dscho