git equivalent for rename

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In bash I can do find . -name jndi.properties -exec rename 's/jndi/environment/' {} \; to recursively find all jndi.propertie files and have them renamed to environment.properties.

But git status does not recognize the mv, it shows the deletion and addition separately. How can I do recursive git mv?

find . -name jndi.properties -exec git mv 's/jndi/environment/' {} \; — Gregg, May 31 '16 at 12:07
man git-status. There is an option to detect renames. And technically IT IS deletion and addition in git internals — Alexey Ten, May 31 '16 at 12:42

Eric Renouf · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-31T12:25:41.230

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Since you're doing an exact match on the name, you don't really need to do a dynamic substitution, do you? If your find supports it (BSD and GNU do, but it's not specified in POSIX) you could use -execdir to execute the command in the directory so you could just do

find . -name jndi.properties -execdir git mv {} environment.properties \;

edited May 31 '16 at 12:25

answered May 31 '16 at 12:12

Eric Renouf

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This will not help with git status – Alexey Ten May 31 '16 at 12:47
I was not aware of the `-execdir` possibility. thanks.! – dr jerry May 31 '16 at 12:53
@AlexeyTen it seems to keep the deleted part of the status, but I don't see the add part with my solution, so it half-helps with the `git status` – Eric Renouf May 31 '16 at 13:05

git equivalent for rename

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