move all files of current directory into subdirectory and maintain history

Question

How can I move all the files of my current directory into a new directory and retain the history.

I have tried:

git mv . old_app

But I

Answer 1

So, I got into the same problem and what did the job for me was

for file in $(ls | grep -v 'yourfolder'); do git mv $file yourfolder; done;