How to move a project to another folder by Git in Visual Studio

Question

I have solution that looks like this in Visual Studio and I committed them in Git:

--project.a
--project.b

How should I move them (to for example srcFolder) to look like the following without loosing Git history:

--srcFolder
  ---project.a
  ---project.b

Does this answer your question? [Is it possible to move/rename files in Git and maintain their history?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2314652/is-it-possible-to-move-rename-files-in-git-and-maintain-their-history) — Tom, May 31 '20 at 16:18
@evolutionxbox, tnx, i tried "git mv project.a/* srcFolder" but i get fatal:bad source message, actually i was tfs user and not much familiar with git srry if it seems stupid :D — srpc, May 31 '20 at 17:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '20 at 03:15

1

as mentioned here

CMD and PowerShell does not expand globing characters, use git bash instead

git mv project.a srcFolder

should work then.

answered Jun 01 '20 at 03:15

sajjad kalantari

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '22 at 08:20

Note the very important comment to that answer by marczych that if you first stage the changes they will then show up as a move.

(This operation worked fine in Visual Studio 2019.)

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