On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:30:26PM +0200, Jean-FranÃois Burdet wrote: > I want to move my repository (wich is contained in a directory whose > name's containing a space) root tree to a subdirectory. > > I followed what's documented in > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-filter-branch.html , > using the last example : > > [...] > > jfburdet@nagios:~/git test$ git filter-branch --index-filter \ > > '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 $GIT_INDEX_FILE' HEAD > Rewrite 3658e305df3ace21d39bf57dd4e0e5627818dfcc (1/1)mv: target > `test/.git-rewrite/t/../index' is not a directory The problem is that GIT_INDEX_FILE is an absolute path that contains the repo name. So it needs to be quoted in the mv command. This should work: git filter-branch --index-filter \ 'git ls-files -s | sed "s-\t\"*-&newsubdir/-" | GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \ git update-index --index-info && mv "$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new" "$GIT_INDEX_FILE"' HEAD -Peff -- 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