On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:13 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've also tried to make this a plain bash script (w/o the function or > if statements and am failing at the same place). The issue seems to be > with the quoting in the filter-branch | ls-files bit. Also, the end > goal here is to be able to move a directory from one repo and keep the > history. Did you try git subtree (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt)? -- 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