I am trying to search for a specific file extensions across all Git remote projects for the master branch.
Is there any command for it? Cloning all projects locally will take lot of time.
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How many repositories are we talking about here. It may not take as much time as you are thinking if you do shallow clone. – Vishwanath Aug 10 '22 at 11:00
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There are total 34 projects and each project containss 8-10 repository on avg. – Vivek Jaiswal Aug 10 '22 at 11:04
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Do you have URLs of all the repos. What if we write script which does all this automatically for you. Clone and list files of interest. – Vishwanath Aug 10 '22 at 11:12
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but the problem is i would need to go through all 350 repos for URLs – Vivek Jaiswal Aug 10 '22 at 11:27
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You tagged your question both for gitlab and github. Which product are you using? You might be able to leverage features of the VCS server for this... – sytech Aug 10 '22 at 20:08
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@sytech i didn't tag. this was edited. I am using TFS 2018 – Vivek Jaiswal Aug 12 '22 at 04:31
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In TFS 2018, I found the search by using filter by scope(file:) option. It has all the necessary filters(e.g. Branch, repo). This solved my issue. Using the same search, I able to find the string within each file.
Vivek Jaiswal
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Unfortunately not, you have to rely on the tools provided by your host platform: Gitlab, Github or whatever.
As an alternative, you should build a list of your remote repo then remotely search by:
git log origin/master ...search options...
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Both GitHub and GitLab have search functionality for this.
If you need a local/git based solution, cloning the repo is probably your best bet, depending on what information you need from the repository contents. There is a tool called all-repos that helps you do this. It provides a minimal configuration for discovery and automation of working with many repos all at once. It also includes tools like all-repos-find-files, all-repos-grep, etc.
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