Step 1
SkillFiles & storageFind and update the references in other Git repos to files that were moved, renamed, or deleted in the current Git repo
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Then ask your AI: use the Step 1 skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by causify-ai/helpers in .claude/skills/git.update_references/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
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Find all the files moved, renamed, updated, or deleted in the current repo using a command line
> invoke git_files --branch --only-print-files -
Print all the file that are moved, renamed, or deleted
- Print the main functions changed
Step 2
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For each file
<FILE>, look for all the references to<FILE>in the reposhelper: the current repoumd_classes: located at~/src/umd_classes1csfy: located at~/src/csfy1orange: located at~/src/orange1lemonade: located at~/src/lemonade1
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You must
- Ignore searching in any Git sub repository of each repo (e.g.,
helpers_root) - Only search in files that are under Git control
- Ignore searching in symlinks (e.g.,
.claude) using an approach like:
search_repo() { local repo_path=$1 local search_term=$2 (cd "$repo_path" && { # Get submodule paths to exclude submodules=$(git config --file .gitmodules --name-only --get-regexp path 2>/dev/null | sed 's/.*path=//' | tr '\n' '|' | sed 's/|$//') if [ -n "$submodules" ]; then git ls-files | grep -v "^($submodules)" | while read -r file; do [ ! -L "$file" ] && echo "$file" done | xargs grep "$search_term" 2>/dev/null else git ls-files | while read -r file; do [ ! -L "$file" ] && echo "$file" done | xargs grep "$search_term" 2>/dev/null fi }) } - Ignore searching in any Git sub repository of each repo (e.g.,
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Print the references in a table organized by
- Repos
- Files
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Create a vim quickfile cfile for the locations using the conventions in
@.claude/skills/cfile.rules.md -
Pause and ask the user to continue
Step 3
- Update the references in all the repos
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 145
- Forks
- 159
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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git-update-references- Source
- github.com/causify-ai/helpers