Using "/" as the sed substitution delimiter is less likely to clash
with desired subdirectory names than "-".
---
Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 020028c..a90e2dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -354,11 +354,12 @@ git filter-branch ... C..H --not D
git filter-branch ... D..H --not C
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-To move the whole tree into a subdirectory, or remove it from there:
+To move the whole tree into a subdirectory named newsubdir, or remove
+it from there:
---------------------------------------------------------------
git filter-branch --index-filter \
- 'git ls-files -s | sed "s-\t\"*-&newsubdir/-" |
+ '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' HEAD
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1.7.1.1