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Icen
Icen

Reputation: 451

How to rename multiple branches in git?

We have an convention to add a prefix before branch name. Of course not every one followed that convention and now we have multiple branches that do not have a prefix.

So the task is to write a command(s) that:

1) get all branches that do not have one of the feature/bugfix/hotfix prefix

2) rename all those branches and add them a (lets say "misc") prefix

3) do not touch master branch

I did found something like this: 

git branch | grep defects | awk '{original=$1; sub("defects","old-defects"); print original, $1}' | xargs -n 2 git branch -m

but I do not know who to reuse it in my situation

regards

mW

Upvotes: 1

Views: 556

Answers (1)

Messa
Messa

Reputation: 25211

git branch --list \
    | tr -d ' *' \
    | egrep -v '^master$' \
    | egrep -v '^(feature|bugfix|hotfix)_' \
    | xargs -n 1 -I % echo git branch -m % misc_%

Remove the echo if you want to really run the git command.

Upvotes: 3

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