extra-git/man/sed.txt

Common utility commands for Git repositories.

git-sed(1) -- replace patterns in git-controlled files

SYNOPSIS

git-sed [ -c ] [ -f  ]   [  ] [ --  ]

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.

  <flags>
  -f <flags>

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

  <search>

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

  <replacement>

  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 'myfunction' 'dostuff'
... 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 'mymethod' 'dostuff' -- lake/
... only replace 'my_method' occurs under lake/.

AUTHOR

Written by Antoine Beaupré <> 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

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SEE ALSO

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