I ran into a bug with the example in the man page for filter-branch, for moving everything into a subdir:
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
The problem seems to be when a commit happens that is just a file removal with no added file. In those cases, git ls-files doesn't output anything. Trying to throw a -d option in doesn't seem to improve matters.
So the problem is that if a commit is just file removals, this example will actually crash. Unfortunately I don't have a suggested solution at the moment.
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