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extract multiple words from git log
I need to extract multiple words from git log.
I need the commit id and ticket number for each commit, I then need to run this through a loop and do some further processing for each commit.
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How to add an exact-match flag to the following git + sed function?
I want to create a bash function where you can do a sed find and replace while ignoring the files and folders in .gitignore. I also want to be able to add any git grep flags to the command. For ...
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Return list using git diff and grep
I'm using git diff to return the file names of files recently changed and i'm trying to pipe the returned file names into a grep expression that searches each file and returns the files that have &...
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How to replace duplicated multi-line groups, e.g. from git & diff3
I'm rebasing legacy code, and finding lots of conflicts caused by scripts -- usually code formatters. The changes are simple and predictable, so I can trivially re-run the script to apply the changes ...
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grep has different result in terminal command line and bash script
I have a bash script that uses grep to screen out file with certain extensions and under certain directories. The script looks something like follows:
generate_exclud_extensions() {
echo "\&...
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How can I keep the color output of git status when piping it through grep?
I'm trying to compress the output of git status a bit, for a "system status" script that runs whenever I log in to an ssh session. I'm hoping it'll nag at me and encourage me to commit more ...
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How do I grep output from git?
I'm trying to extract the name of the folder created by git. The output says:
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Cloning into 'repository-name'...
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I want to pipe this output into grep to extract the one line that says Cloning ...
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Is there any better way to filter the output of git diff?
SO Question in Context : Find out changed line numbers from git diff
Based on the question above, I need to print the diff for modified files between two revisions in git in this format :
/path/to/...
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Mac OS xargs adds '?[m' at the end of line
I am trying to delete some local git branches with
git branch -D $(git branch | grep 'RTL-1[1|2|3]' | xargs)
However I am getting this kind of error
error: branch 'RTL-1114_branch_name1?[m' not ...
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Can someone tell me what this command does?
I have encountered the following command in an internet tutorial. I couldn't understand how it works.
git log | grep commit > ~/filename.txt
Someone please explain me how it works.
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How can I search terminal output?
Say I type git help to learn about the merge command. I don't want to read all the output just the lines that contain merge and their surrounding lines.
I thought this would be a common question but ...
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Have custom grep exclude dirs for each project
I'm curious if anyone has a way to automatically generate a different set of --exclude-dir flags for grep for each different codebase that you work in.
Because in one project, I'll never want to ...
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Getting differences of file between specific revisions/branches
I have 2 different branches A,B that have a (slightly different) version of a file X.
I am interested in getting the commits that added some specific patterns in branch B.
What I do roughly: diff ...
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Display filename of git diff filtered by term
-n works as a grep argument to display the line number, but -H doesn't for filename. I think it is because git diff doesn't by default output filename for each changed line. As I was typing, I ...
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diff to show only the additions in a changed file
Normally diff and git diff show both the original and the modified line with - and + respectively. Is there any way, I can filter only to see the modified line? This would reduce the number of lines ...
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