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L Holden
L Holden

Reputation: 31

Adding .gitattributes to every branch automatically

I have a repo that has over 300 branches, and I am wanting to store various files on in a Git LFS. To do this I need to add the .gitattributes file to the branches first. However, as I have over 300 branches, manually doing this will be very time consuming.

Is there a way that I can add a prepopulated .gitattributes file to the root of every branch automatically and push them?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 625

Answers (1)

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 4580

A one-liner which assumes you have a branch named feature/add-gitattributes which makes the necessary changes;

git for-each-ref refs/remotes/origin --format="%(refname:lstrip=3)" | xargs -n 1 sh -c 'git checkout "$1"; git merge feature/add-gitattributes;' --

To break it down...

This part just gets a list of those 300 branch names;

git for-each-ref refs/remotes/origin --format="%(refname:lstrip=3)"

This part takes those names and passes them to a sub-shell;

| xargs -n 1 sh -c

This part is the command to the sub-shell which checks out the target branch and merges your feature branch to add the .gitattributes file.

'git checkout "$1"; git merge feature/add-gitattributes;' --

The trailing -- ensures the branch name is passed as an argument to the sub-shell.

Upvotes: 1

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