how to find git folders and move them

[j-lakeman]

Hey, awesome application! Keep up the good work!

I want to find all ~/*/.git folders and then move * to my Git folder.
This is my config:

  - name: "Git repos"
    targets: dirs
    subfolders: true
    locations:
      - path: "~"
        system_exclude_dirs: []
        min_depth: 1
        max_depth: 1
    filters:
      - regex: "^.git$"
    actions:
      - move: "{env.GIT}/{relative_path.parent}"

It finds the .git folder, but only moves the parent without the other subfolders. How could this be achieved? Can path not have wildcards in it?

[joev2]

@j-lakeman -- you're thinking about this a little wrong. Let's say GIT=~/my_git_projects and you have this folder structure:

~/my_git_projects
~/my_project
~/my_project/.git
~/another_project
~/another_project/.git
~/other_dir

What you want is to move my_project and another_project into ~/my_git_projects. (Right?) But your rule is matching my_project/.git and another_project/.git, and then doing a move action on those subdirectories.

Instead, you want a rule that will match ~/my_project and ~/another_project, but not ~/other_dir, because it doesn't have a .git subdirectory. There is no filter that means "match directory if it has a file or subdirectory named X," so you'll need a python filter to do it. Try this:

  - name: "Git repos"
    targets: dirs
    subfolders: true
    locations:
      # Look at all directories in ~
      - path: "~"
        system_exclude_dirs: []
        min_depth: 0
        max_depth: 0
    filters:
      # Match only if the directory has a .git subdirectory
      - python: |
          git_repo_path = path / ".git"
          return git_repo_path.is_dir()
    actions:
      # Move ~/x to ${GIT}/x
      - move: "{env.GIT}"

I think this is what you're trying to do. Hopefully this is still useful!

P.S. If you were actually trying to match the .git directory, you would want to change your regex rule to regex: '^\.git$' -- note single quotes and additional backslash. As you've written it, the dot will match any character, so the regex would also match _git or agit or 1git.

[j-lakeman]

Thanks m8! Do you know by any chance where the docs regarding the python filter can be found?

[joev2]

Yep! Here: https://organize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/filters/#python. There is also a python action that works similarly.

It's probably obvious, but the short story is the path variable created by organize is a pathlib object, so the code tests if "{path}/.git" is a directory that exists. Longer story: The Python pathlib library turns paths into objects, and the division operator gets overridden to work like os.path.join. (The division operator happens to be a forward slash, like a directory separator. Cute, no?) And pathlib objects auto-convert to regular strings, so you can often treat them like strings and they work the way you'd expect.

[j-lakeman]

Thanks for the explanation!