18 December 2012

At SAYS we hosted all our repo in GitHub. It must have been 4 5 years now. We’ve changed our domain few times now, to better reflect our company. But we never bothered to change our organization name in GitHub. So until today it is in [https://github.com/youthasia] (https://github.com/youthasia).

Today I decided to update our details in GitHub and while I am at it, change the name to SAYS. So I did just that knowing that we can’t sync our local repos until we change the URL in our local machine.

Because we have quite a lot of repos, changing them one by one didn’t make much sense. This is what I did.

I have a directory called workspace where I store all the repos.

- workspace
  \_ repo_one
  \_ repo_two
  \_ repo_three
  ....

I want to look for .git/config and change the URL in these lines:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:youthasia/example.git # Change youthasia to says

I did this:

  cd workspace
  for i in `find . -name config` ; do sed -i.back s/git@github\.com:youthasia/git@github\.com:says/g $i; done;

What I did was to change to workspace directory, find all config, sed will create backup file, change youthasia to says and save it. Now we can sync back with GitHub.