How to move a git repository into another directory and make that directory a git repository

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I have a directory gitrepo1  This directory is a git repository    I would like to move this gitrepo1 into another directory newrepo  Directory newrepo should be the new git repository with no loss of git history and should contain the directory gitrepo1  Directory gitrepo1 should just be a directory now  inside newrepo   without any  git index  i e  it should NO longer be an independent git repository or a submodule    How can I do this

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It s even simpler than that  Just did this  on Windows  but it should work on other OS     Create newrepo  Move gitrepo1 into newrepo  Move  git from gitrepo1 to newrepo  up one level   Commit changes  fix tracking as required     Git just sees you added a directory and renamed a bunch of files  No biggie

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I am no expert  but I copy the  git folder to a new folder  then invoke  git reset --hard

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To do this without any headache   Check out what s the current branch in the gitrepo1 with git status  let s say branch  quot development quot   Change directory to the newrepo  then git clone the project from repository  Switch branch in newrepo to the previous one  git checkout development  Syncronize newrepo with the older one  gitrepo1 using rsync  excluding  git folder  rsync -azv --exclude   git  gitrepo1 newrepo gitrepo1  You don t have to do this with rsync of course  but it does it so smooth   The benefit of this approach  you are good to continue exactly where you left off  your older branch  unstaged changes  etc

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It s very simple  Git doesn t care about what s the name of its directory  It only cares what s inside  So you can simply do     copy the directory into newrepo dir that exists already  else create it    cp -r gitrepo1 newrepo    remove  git from old repo to delete all history and anything git from it   rm -rf gitrepo1  git   Note that the copy is quite expensive if the repository is large and with a long history  You can avoid it easily too     move the directory instead   mv gitrepo1 newrepo    make a copy of the latest version   Either    mkdir gitrepo1  cp -r newrepo   gitrepo1     doesn t copy  gitignore  and other hidden files     Or    git clone --depth 1 newrepo gitrepo1  rm -rf gitrepo1  git    Or  look further here  http   stackoverflow com q 1209999 912144    git archive --format tar --remote  lt repository URL gt  HEAD   tar xf -     Once you create newrepo  the destination to put gitrepo1 could be anywhere  even inside newrepo if you want it  It doesn t change the procedure  just the path you are writing gitrepo1 back

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