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March 28, 2022 21:53
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Grep the git history for a batch of repos in bulk, to see if a string has ever been referenced in any of the repos
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Usage: gitsearch.sh stringToSearchFor * | |
| # | |
| # If you have a lot of repos to search, you might want to run this in a tmux session and pipe the results into a logfile with tee, e.g. | |
| # | |
| # cd folderWithLotsOfReposInIt | |
| # gitsearch.sh stringToSearchFor * | tee /tmp/gitsearch-stringToSearchFor.log | |
| # | |
| expression=$1 | |
| shift | |
| echo ${expression} | |
| for repo in "$@" | |
| do | |
| if [ -d ${repo} ] | |
| then | |
| echo "Searching ${repo}" | |
| cd ${repo} | |
| git rev-list --all | xargs git --no-pager grep "${expression}" | |
| cd - > /dev/null | |
| fi | |
| done |
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