Mass git repository search, replace and commit tool written in Rust

⚠️WARNING⚠️ This tool is designed to make changes to hundreds of git repositories, as well as pushing these changes to remote if --push flag is used. This project is still WIP so please test on repositories that you have a safe copy.

To install the latest version of the binary to /usr/local/bin/ copy the following into your terminal:

latest_ver=$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mbrav/gitraider/main/latest)
file_name=gitraider_$latest_ver-stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
curl -L -o /tmp/$file_name https://github.com/mbrav/gitraider/releases/download/$latest_ver/$file_name
tar -xvf /tmp/$file_name -C /tmp/
sudo cp /tmp/target/release/gitraider /usr/local/bin/
gitraider -V 

If successful, you will get the following after the end:

gitraider 0.1.8

To run, first install Rust's tool chain. Then build:

cargo run -- --help

You will get the following result showing you a help dialogue:

Mass git repository search, replace and commit tool

Usage: gitraider [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --path <PATH>      Path to repositories [env: REPO_PATH=] [default: ../repos]
  -b, --branch <REGEX>   Specify Regex pattern for branches to checkout [env: REPO_BRANCH=] [default: .*]
  -f, --file <REGEX>     Specify Regex pattern for filename [env: FILE_PATTERN=]
  -l, --line <REGEX>     Specify Regex pattern for selecting lines [env: LINE_PATTERN=]
  -s, --select <REGEX>   Specify Regex pattern for selecting parts of a line [env: LINE_SELECT=]
  -r, --replace <REGEX>  Specify Regex pattern for replacing lines selected by --select [env: LINE_REPLACE=]
  -c, --commit <TXT>     Specify commit message. No commit if empty [env: COMMIT_MSG=]
      --push             Specify wether to push commit [env: PUSH_CHANGES=]
      --dry              Run program in dry mode without altering files and writing to git history [env: DRY_RUN=]
  -d, --display          Display results at the end of program execution [env: DISPLAY_RES=]
  -h, --help             Print help
  -V, --version          Print version

As an example, say we have a backend team that is tired of causing outages every other commit because the same Apache Kafka cluster used in production is also used in development (thankfully, this is a made up story). A new Kafka cluster for development was setup and now we need to modify hundreds of repositories in development branches to use a new domain pointing to Kafka's development bootstrap server.

We need to modify values.yaml and config.env files in hundreds of git repositories that are cloned to /home/user/git_repos. But all these repositories need to be modified under the git branch development. Specifically, we need to select lines that contain "prod-kafka.backend:9092" and replace "prod-kafka" hostname with "dev-kafka". We can do the following:

cargo run -- \
  -p "/home/user/git_repos" \
  -b "development\$" \
  -f "values.yaml|config.env" \
  -l "prod-kafka.backend:9092" \
  -s "prod-kafka" \
  -r "dev-kafka" \
  -c "Change bootstrap server url from prod-kafka to dev-kafka" \
  --push -d

After running the command with the -d flag we get the following report:

Repo mbrav/test-repo
  Checking out development
  Success checking out branch 'development' 0290ec568bbd541420454e64b5a7dda6a9642554
  Staged 'values.yaml'
  Success commit 'Change bootstrap server url from prod-kafka to dev-kafka' d93cb354791ccb4a540b767c70ea480d4cbd580a
REPORT                                                                                               
Fn - Matched file with number of matched lines                                                                           
  Ln - Original line, line number                                                                                     
  Rn - Replace line (if present), line number 
GIT REPOSITORIES

Repository: mbrav/test-repo
Branch: development
  F2: mbrav/test-repo/values.yaml
    L1:   kafka_bootstrapservers: "prod-kafka.backend:9092"
    R1:   kafka_bootstrapservers: "test-kafka.backend:9092"
    L4:   kafka_url: prod-kafka.backend:9092
    R4:   kafka_url: test-kafka.backend:9092
Elapsed: 39.170ms

For base functionality to be completed, the following must still be finished:

• Create new commit with specified message;
• Add more elaborate commit changes checks to avoid making duplicate changes and commits;
• Make dry-run mode more functional.
• Push changes to remote after successful commit. Because liggit2, the underlying C library that git2 Rust library offers bindings to, does not support parsing ~/.ssh/ configs, coming up with a workaround is still WIP. Relevant issues:
  • rust-lang/git2-rs#362
  • libgit2/libgit2#5640
  • libgit2/libgit2#4338
• Add undo mechanics based on already done changes to avoid deleting and recreating all repositories after each unsuccessful run;
• Print current branch name is results assesment as well as commit info, etc
• Add optional pull from remote before a commit to branch;