I'm trying to move my entire repo root into a sub-directory, for everything except one file.

For example, I have something like:

root
-Folder1
-Folder2
-.gitattributes

And for all commits and history, I want

root
-ProjectA
--Folder1
--Folder2
-.gitattributes

i.e., I want to move everything except .gitattributes to a subdirectory. If I use

 git filter-repo --to-subdirectory-filter ProjectA/

everything gets moved. I can't find the strategy for moving everything except a single file.

How do I keep the file where it is? Or how do I move just that file back up to the root with another command?

CodePudding user response：

If you can, you would list all elements except .gitattributes, and rename them in one command, using path renaming:

git filter-repo --path-rename Folder1:ProjectA/Folder1 \
                --path-rename Folder2:ProjectA/Folder2 \
                ...

The OP House suggests in the comments the more sensible approach:

• moving everything to a subdir,
• then moving the .gitattributes back with --path-rename ProjectA/.gitattributes:.gitattributes

I would do each step in a separately cloned repository, to make sure I can go back to the original one if it fails.
The second step would be done in a clone of the repository from the first step.