Question

I’ve been working on an Eclipse plug-in project for a while now, and I’ve run into a situation where I need to split the project up to seperate the test cases from the plug-in package. I’m using git as version control.

To describe this simply, I’m versioning the old project like this:

workspace/   |   +-- myplugin/          |          +-- .git/ <-- Here be the git repository          |          +-- /* Source code, project stuff, etc. */ 

…and I’m in the situation where I need to work the plugin tests in a seperate project (so that jUnit won’t be needed as a required bundle with the plugin). And I’d like the repository to version everything in the workspace. Like this:

workspace/   |   +-- .git/ <-- The repository should be relocated here instead…   |   +-- myplugin/   |      |   |      +-- /* Source code, project stuff, etc. */   |   +-- myplugin-test/          |          +-- /* Unit tests and stuff… */ 

Is there a simple way to do this without losing the history of the old project?

Answer 1

Here’s the workflow in pseudocode:

 cd workspace/myplugin mkdir myplugin git mv * myplugin # you might need to do that for all files/folders manualy mkdir myplugin-test # move/add files to myplugin-test git commit -a -m 'Reorganization' cd workspace mv myplugin myplugin_old mv myplugin_old/* . # you should end up with requested structure