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Pan Chrono
Pan Chrono

Reputation: 420

Is it possible to search for git commit message in many repositories in a git server?

Is it possible to search for git commit message in many repositories on a git server?

thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 45

Answers (1)

mockinterface
mockinterface

Reputation: 14890

The convenient way to go about this is to temporarily aggregate all the remotes in one repo. Consider REPO_LIST as the array of (local) paths to the repositories on a git server: 

$ mkdir /tmp/aggregate_repo && cd $_ && git init .
$ REPO_LIST=(/path/to/repo1 /path/to/repo2 /path/to/repoN); \
  for repo in ${REPO_LIST[@]}; do git remote add $(basename $repo) $repo; done
$ git fetch --all
$ git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/remotes | \
  while read ref; do git log --grep=SEARCH_PATTERN $ref --pretty=oneline; done | \
  sort | uniq

This will create an aggregate repo, add all the remotes to search, fetch the remotes, and then for each refname in every remote it will search for SEARCH_PATTERN, listing all the matching commits.

Upvotes: 1

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