Git Renamer

This Go CLI tool recursively scans directories under your home directory, identifies Git repositories, extracts their first commit date, and prints the directory to include the project name and date.

🔧 How It Works

The core steps in main.go are:

1. Get the user's home directory.
2. Recursively list all subdirectories.
3. Filter only those that contain a .git directory (i.e. Git repositories).
4. For each Git repository:
   • Extract the date of the first commit.
   • Rename the directory by appending the date.
   • Print the renamed path.

🚀 Usage

Build

go build -o git-renamer

Run

./git-renamer

📁 Example

If you have this project structure:

/home/user/code/
├── myproject/.git
├── another/.git
├── notgit/

After running the tool:

git-renamer: myproject-20250511
git-renamer: another-20221201

📚 Requirements

• Go 1.16 or higher
• Git installed and accessible via git command

🧪 Testing

You can test the core logic using Go’s built-in testing framework:

go test ./...

🛠️ Project Structure

• datestr.go - Date string formatter and project name appender in Go.
• dirlist.go - Lists all non-hidden paths and filters directories with git.
• gitops.go - GitOps utility to get first commit date via command execution.
• main.go - The entry point of the CLI

📄 License

MIT License