I originally had a slightly different need and was given a great answer: Prepend Git commit message with partial branch name
However, my needs have changed a bit and the regex I have is not working as intended, I'm hoping someone can give me a little guidance.
My current branch naming convention is: bug/ab-123/branch-description
What I need to do is prepend every git commit message with the values in between each forward slash, so in this case ab-123. Additionally, I'd like it capitalized as AB-123.
The end result I'm looking for is:
AB-123 my commit message goes here
My current prepare-commit-message regex is:
branch=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)
trimmed=$(echo "$branch" | sed -e 's:^[a-z]+\/\([a-z]{2,}-\d+\):\1:' -e \
'y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/')
echo $trimmed | sed -e 's/f/b/' | tr [a-z] [A-Z] | awk '{print("ls " $1)}'
This does nothing however. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
You don't really need regular expressions if you've got a nice delimited string like that:
branch=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)
trimmed=$(echo $branch | cut -f2 -d/ | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
So given:
$ git status
On branch bug/ab-123/foobar
nothing to commit, working directory clean
We get:
$ branch=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)
$ echo $branch
bug/ab-123/foobar
And:
$ trimmed=$(echo $branch | cut -f2 -d/ | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
$ echo $trimmed
AB-123
And this gives you "the values in between each forward slash", converted to uppercase.