Hi,

sometimes I want to reorganize the content of a directory and simply move 
everything into a subdirectory. This seems to be more complicated than it 
should be. Since git mv requires the destination to exist, I need to create the 
target directory first. Unfortunately this results in git mv * to include that 
directory which results in an error since moving a directory into itself is not 
possible. My current workaround is rather long by using extglob:

mkdir -p newfolder/subfolder
shopt -s extglob
git mv !(newfolder) newfolder/subfolder
shopt -u extglob

For my usecase it would be much easier to archive that target by have a 
parameter to simply create the target if it isn't existing.

Best Regards
Heiko Böttger

STORZ Endoskop Produktions GmbH
Niederlassung Schaffhausen
Schneckenackerstr. 1
8200 Schaffhausen
Switzerland

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