When inside a git repository in Powershell or CMD, issuing
git mv * whatever
will return
fatal: bad source, source=*, destination=whatever
This works fine when using MSYS (Git Bash).
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As has been pointed out by others in this thread, the star does not automatically expand to file names in PowerShell. Thus, the command let get-childItem needs to be used, which explicitely tells PowerShell to expand wildcard characters.
You want to put the result of get-childItem * into parentheses so that they are expanded before the entire git mv command is executed:
git mv (get-childItem *) whatever
To save a few key strokes, you might want to use the alias gci for get-childItem:
git mv (gci *) whatever
René Nyffenegger
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As @PetSerAI said, the Windows command prompt and PowerShell will not expand the globing characters and it makes git mv fail.
Use a bash shell like MSYS instead.
georgiosd
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Using PowerShell to move the content of source to whatever folder you can run this command:
Get-ChildItem .\source\ | ForEach-Object { git mv $_.FullName .\whatever\ }
Your directory structure would look like this before:
+--C:\code\Project\
|
+----+bootstrap.py
+----+requirements.txt
+----+.gitignore
+----+source
|
+---------+manage.py
+---------+modules
+---------+templates
+---------+static
+----+whatever
|
+---------+cool.py
And after running would look like this:
+--C:\code\Project\
|
+----+bootstrap.py
+----+requirements.txt
+----+.gitignore
+----+source
+----+whatever
|
+---------+cool.py
+---------+manage.py
+---------+modules
+---------+templates
+---------+static
Nick
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