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sensorario

Reputation: 21698

how to rename a family/pattern of branches in one step

I know that I can rename a branch with

git branch -m new-branch-name

And also that I can rename that branch from another branch with:

git branch -m old-branch-name new-branch-name

but I want to know if i can rename a range of branches replacing a path from all of them. For example

foo/bar/1.2
foo/baracca/1.2
foo/baratro/1.2
foo/barbabietola/1.2
foo/bartender/1.2

Should be changed in "replace 1.2 in 1.3"

foo/bar/1.3
foo/baracca/1.3
foo/baratro/1.3
foo/barbabietola/1.3
foo/bartender/1.3

or "replace foo with me"

meh/bar/1.2
meh/baracca/1.2
meh/baratro/1.2
meh/barbabietola/1.2
meh/bartender/1.2

Upvotes: 0

Views: 214

Answers (1)

eftshift0
eftshift0

Reputation: 30327

I would do it like this:

git branch | grep 1.2 | while read branch; do
    new_branch=$( echo $branch | sed 's/1.2/1.3/' )
    echo moving $branch to $new_branch

    # enable next line when we are sure the name of the branches is correct
    # git branch -m $branch $new_branch
done

Upvotes: 2

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