My Git repository is in the wrong root directory. Can I move it? (../ instead of ./)

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Somehow when I git inited my latest project a month or so ago I ran the command in the directory one directory higher than the root of my project.

So my repository is in the ./project directory and not the ./project/my-new-project directory. I don't know how I didn't realize the issue earlier, but I just never looked for the .git directory until now.

Is there a way, without killing my project, to move the repository to the proper directory and then tell git what the new base of the project is? Just moving the directory doesn't work. Git thinks all files have been deleted.

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git filter-branch lets you rewrite history in that way. The git filter-branch man page even has your case as an example:

To rewrite the repository to look as if foodir/ had been its project root, and discard all other history:

git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter foodir -- --all

You probably want to git clone the repo into a new subdirectory before (or after?) the git filter-branch run. (Cloning before filter-branch and running the filter-branch on the new clone would have the advantage of leaving the original .git/ dir in place as a backup in case something goes wrong.)

user_1826750

Probably the simplest thing, unless you have already created some history you want to save, would be to just delete the .git subdirectory and redo the init in the correct directory.

If you used git to solve the problem, any solution would necessarily leave behind a lot of "moved this file here" history entries that aren't actually changes, but you fixing a screwup at creation time. Better to just create it right.

user_296390

Use git-mv to move your files "up" to the proper location, then git-rm the "my-new-project" directory.

user_2056400
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