Git equivalent of 'hg convert'

Question

There is a useful tool for Mercurial called the "ConvertExtension." It allows you to essentially rewrite the entirety of a repository's history. For example, if you have a file "foo.txt" in your root folder, but you want it to have been in the folder "root/bar/," you could use "hg convert" to change history to make it appear that it had always been in the "/bar/" folder.

Does an equivalent tool exist for git?

Answer 1

git filter-branch is the equivalent.