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 ---------------------------------------- -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 -- 1.7.1.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html