git-search

Tool for search a pattern regexp into a git repository for all remote branches.

Overview

Powered by Go-Git, this tool clones a repo in memory and searches for a string (or regex) for all remote branches.

For install, use go install

go install github.com/agustin-del-pino/git-search

Once install, just execute it.

gss "YOUR-STRING-OR-REGEX" -r "REPO-URL" -u "USERNAME" -p "PASSWORD_OR_TOKEN"

Then a result.json will be generated that contains the collected information. It looks like this.

{
  "repo_name": {
    "branch_name": {
      "file_name": [
        "content_matched"
      ]
    }
  }
}

For each repository where the search will make a new goroutine starts.

Reference

The -h flag provides the Help Information of the command.

Arguments

There only one positional argument SEARCH which is a STRING|REGEX to be used for the grep process.

Flags

Flag	Shorthand	Description
--help	-h	the command help
--user	-u	set the username for auth (mandatory)
--password	-p	set the password fot auth (mandatory)
--repo	-r	add a repo name (accumulative) (mandatory if -f is not set)
--file-repos	-f	set the source file to get the repo names (mandatory if -r is not set)
--out-file	-o	set the output filepath (default: ./result.json)