Project file structure change and Git

Question

I have a regular repo with only master.

I have been making commits ...

I needed to restructure the file paths of the entire project.

I commited the file path changes as normal.

How do I make the repo only show the new file structure. When I look at the repo I can see the files showing in both the old location and the new location?

Or should I just leave as-is?

Answer 1

you could try "git tag old_master; git checkout --orphan -B master "

then the old commit chain with the old file structure is still accessible from the tag 'old_master' if you need it. But only the new file structure will be on the new 'master' branch. As an orphan commit, it has no parents, and so starts a new commit chain.