move all source files to a subfolder

[victimofleisure]

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Hi. I run a repo called Whorld. I would like to move all of the source files that are currently in trunk down a level, into a new subfolder called Whorld. It currently looks like this:

trunk
  source files

But it should look like this:

trunk
  Whorld
    source files

• I would like to do this without bloating the repo by creating an extra copy of every single source file. That would be ugly!

• I would also like to avoid using the command line, as I'm a Windows queen and don't want to mess with cryptic commands that I don't understand.

The GitHub instructions say I can do this in GitHub.dev which I tried. I'm able to create the subfolder, select all the source files, and drag and drop them all in the subfolder. Super. But when I try to commit the change, it loops for about 30 seconds while counting down and acting like it's making progress, but then it always fails with the uninformative message "Can't commit."

I usually use GitHub desktop for everything. So I could do this change in my local working copy, and commit it. That's easy, but I'm not sure it's the right thing to do. Is GitHub desktop smart enough to avoid adding a second copy of every source file to the repo?

Sorry if I'm asking a FAQ but I tried pretty hard to answer this by myself and even asked GPT but didn't get any workable answers.

Best
Chris

[sellisd]

@victimofleisure there must be another way, but it was easy to do it in the command line 🤷🏾, here is the Pull request victimofleisure/Whorld#1 , I hope I got it right and moved everything one level down, nice project by the way 👍🏾

[victimofleisure]

Thanks for the kind words. Woah, I had no idea you could do that to someone else's repo. Do you have special powers or everyone can do that? The change looks good, I'll accept it. Thank you!
c

[sellisd]

no special powers, anyone can do it. Briefly, if you have a public repository others might get inspired by your work and suggest enhancements or find errors and propose solutions. Here a nice introduction on the topic: https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/

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