joel-hamill/bulk-change-tool

Bulk change repository tool

Use these scripts to create pull requests and propose changes to multiple GitHub repositories. This is useful when making similar changes across multiple GitHub repositories.

Prerequisites

• Git
• GitHub CLI - You must authenticate from the command line before using.

Procedure

1. Customize the global-step1.sh script with the path to your GitHub repositories. For example:

   git clone git@github.com:joel-hamill/bulk-change-tool.git

2. From your terminal, run the script to clone the repos. ./global-step1.sh

3. Make changes to multiple GitHub repositories. For example, to search for "thethe" and replace with "the:

   find . -name '*.rst' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "" "s/thethe/the/g"

4. Customize the global-step2.sh script with your information and commit and push your change to GitHub. For example:

   cd bulk-change-tool && git add filename && git checkout -b branchname \
   && git commit -m "commit message" && \
   git push origin HEAD && gh pr create --title "commit message" --fill