# Did you know...
...that git lets you move and rename whole directories while preserving the git history of those files?

If you run
```bash
git read-tree --prefix=$NEW_PATH -u master:$OLD_PATH
rm -rf $OLD_PATH
# ...you probably want to change some imports...
git commit -m $MESSAGE
```
that will move the directory tree to the new location,
and, when you commit, it'll preserve this history of those files.

Things that still work:
- git blame
- git merge with code that branched off before the renaming (incredible!)
  - you may have to set `merge.renamelimit` to something higher for this to work, i.e.
    `git config merge.renamelimit 4000`