NAME

git-sed - replace patterns in git-controlled files

SYNOPSIS

git-sed [ -c ] [ -f flags ] search replacement [ flags ] [ -- pathspec ]

DESCRIPTION

Run git grep and then send results to sed for replacement with the given flags, if they are provided via -f or as the third argument.

Also runs git commit if -c is provided.

OPTIONS

-c

commit the resulting changes with a standard commit message detailing the exact command ran. It will fail if there are unstaged changes.

will use the given regex flags in the sed command (for example "g" replaces multiple times on the same line).

the pattern passed to grep and to the first part of the sed expression.

the replacement passed to sed, the second part of the sed expression.

-- <pathspec>

limit the paths which will be applied on. Read https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary.html#Documentation/gitglossary.txt-aiddefpathspecapathspec for the supported patterns of pathspec.

EXAMPLES

$ git sed ´my_function´ ´do_stuff´
# ... only does the changes, without committing
$ git commit -m"use proper function name"
$ git sed -c ´do_stuff´ ´stuff´
# .. does the changes and a commit
$ git sed -f g do_stuff stuff
# .. g is actually pretty important, otherwise you will miss some
# stuff!
$ git sed ´my_method´ ´do_stuff´ -- lake/
# ... only replace ´my_method´ occurs under lake/.

AUTHOR

Written by Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> from inspiration by https://github.com/da-x/git-search-replace and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9651898/is-there-a-git-sed-or-equivalent

REPORTING BUGS

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>