git-sed - replace patterns in git-controlled files
git-sed [ -c ] [ -f flags ] search replacement [ flags ] [ -- pathspec ]
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.
-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.
$ 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/.
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
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