error after moving subdirectory to root about git-filter-repo HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for the report. I can add some checks to make it error out if people specify the invalid paths '.', '..', or maybe even '.git'. Since --path-rename is just a string replacement (with a bit of help for handling the trailing slash for you) and since git records paths by their relative path (meaning it'll never record a name like './README'), you shouldn't be trying to rename 'modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python' to '.' but to '' (the empty string). This should work for you:

git filter-repo --path modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python --path-rename modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python:

where there is nothing after the colon character.

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Thank you very much for the explanation. Yes, a specific error message would have been very helpful :)

Cheers

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I added an error message for this case to the code; thanks for the report!

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I also ran into this error trying to move a subdirectory to root. The proposed solution of using an empty string to represent the project root seems to cause an error: "fatal: Empty path component found in input".

Is this use-case currently supported? (Or am I mistakenly using an old version? I am using version 81cc263d7659 according to --version)

% ~/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo --path lib/react-app/src --path-rename lib/react-app/src: --force
fatal: Empty path component found in input
fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_2930
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 3913, in <module>
    filter.run()
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 3850, in run
    self._parser.run(self._input, self._output)
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 1414, in run
    self._parse_commit()
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 1267, in _parse_commit
    self._commit_callback(commit, aux_info)
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 3406, in _tweak_commit
    self._insert_into_stream(commit)
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 3825, in _insert_into_stream
    self._parser.insert(obj)
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 1392, in insert
    obj.dump(self._output)
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 720, in dump
    change.dump(file_)
  File "/home/jcrites/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo", line 621, in dump
    file_.write(b'M %s %s %s\n' % (self.mode, self.blob_id, quoted_filename))
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

 % ~/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo --version
81cc263d7659

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The last comment is not quite the same as the original bug report; it'll be handled in the separate new bug report and this one can remain closed.

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