File search across all Git projects

Question

I am trying to search for a specific file extensions across all Git remote projects for the master branch.

Is there any command for it? Cloning all projects locally will take lot of time.

Answer 1

Unfortunately not, you have to rely on the tools provided by your host platform: Gitlab, Github or whatever.

As an alternative, you should build a list of your remote repo then remotely search by:

git log origin/master ...search options...

Answer 2

Both GitHub and GitLab have search functionality for this.

If you need a local/ git based solution, cloning the repo is probably your best bet, depending on what information you need from the repository contents. There is a tool called all-repos that helps you do this. It provides a minimal configuration for discovery and automation of working with many repos all at once. It also includes tools like all-repos-find-files , all-repos-grep , etc.

Answer 3

In TFS 2018, I found the search by using filter by scope(file:) option. It has all the necessary filters(eg Branch, repo). This solved my issue. Using the same search, I able to find the string within each file.