git-search-replace is a small utility on top of plain git
for performing project-wide search-and-replace only on git-controlled files. It applies its searches to filenames as well as their content. The underlying syntax for the search regex is Python's.
It is designed to be a bit more instructive to the developer, compared to hackish bash
scripts around sed
.
Key features are:
- By default, only act as grep to show what is going to change.
- Dry run mode '--diff' shows a unidiff of the changes that the search-and-replace would do, so that the developer can review for correctness. No working directory files are modified.
- Fix mode '--fix' performs the actual changes and associated 'git mv'.
Usage: gsr [options] (FROM-SEPARATOR-TO...)
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s STRING, --separator=STRING
The separator string which separates FROM regex and TO expression
-f, --fix Perform changes in-place
-d, --diff Use 'diff' util to show differences
The expressions are tuples in the form of FROM-SEPARATOR-TO, with SEPARATOR defaults to '///'.
Shell escaping needs to be taken into consideration. The examples below should work with the major UNIX shells.
gsr old_name///new_name --diff
This shows a diff that represents the replacement of 'old_name' with 'new_name'.
gsr \\bold_name\\b///new_name --fix
This uses Python regex expression \b for matching at word boundaries for whole identifiers. This invocation will perform changes in-place because of '--fix'.
gsr 'things with space///with other stuff' --diff
Note that shells properly de-escape the commas from the expression above.