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Andi Giga
Andi Giga

Reputation: 4182

Git Change a Bulk of Files (Images) to Lowercase

I got 100 of images which I needed to rename from .JPG to .jpg. I already wrote a gulp task and renamed them all. Now Git is not recognizing the change.

I found this on single files: I change the capitalization of a directory and Git doesn't seem to pick up on it

But I don't want to do this on each image by hand is it possible to use s.th. like this

git mv **/*/.JPG **/*.temp

git mv **/*/.temp **/*.jpg

The images are all in diff. folders! E.g. src/a, src/a/b src/b ...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 289

Answers (3)

Andi Giga
Andi Giga

Reputation: 4182

This works:

for file in $(git ls-files '*.JPG'); 
do git mv -f $file $(echo $file |sed 's/\.JPG/\.jpg/'); done
  • git ls-files lists all files => '*.JPG' filters
  • git mv -f moves the files (-f = force, which is required)
  • $file returns the original filename
  • $(echo $file |sed 's/\.JPG/\.jpg/')is the new filename

Helpful threads:

git rename many files and folders

How to rename large number of files

Upvotes: 1

jvdm
jvdm

Reputation: 876

for line in $(find -type f -name '*.JPG'
               | sed 's@\(.*\)\.JPG@\1.JPG \1.jpg/')
do
    git mv $line
done

If you already renamed your files you just need to git add them. Since they haven't changed git will notice they all have the the same blob object and setup the renaming. If you don't have any other unknown or changed files in your git working dir, one possible way is:

for path in $(git status --porcelain | sed 's/.. //')
do
    git add "$l"
done

Upvotes: 1

vchethan
vchethan

Reputation: 113

There is a small change to the answer given by @jvdm to make the first code snippet work.

for line in $(find -type f -name '*.JPG'
              | sed 's@\(.*\)\.JPG@\1.JPG \1.jpg/')
do
    git mv $line
done

Upvotes: 1

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