How can I move all git content one-level up in the folder hierarchy?

Question

I have a git repository whose structure looks like:

+--repo.git
|
+----+bootstrap.py
+----+buildout.cfg
+----+.gitignore
+----+webapp
|
+---------+manage.py
         


        

Answer 1

Another variant of Sumeet's answer - in the repository directory above "webapp" execute following command:

git mv webapp/* ./ -k

-k - includes files which are yet not under version control, otherwise you get:

fatal: not under version control, source=webapp/somefile, destination=somefile

Answer 2

in windows you can do the below:

While you are in the child folder

for /f %f in ('dir /b') do git mv %f ../

The result all objects in child folder will be in the parent folder

Please note: some errors may raise when you have object in the child folder with name equals to the child folder

Answer 3

If you are using PowerShell you can run this command from your project root and it will place the content of webapp there.

Get-ChildItem .\webapp\ | ForEach-Object { git mv $_.FullName .\ }