Issues

• Add -e/--regex opt-in mode — triggers v2.0.0 release

  enhancement
  dolph/find-replace#38 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• Build regex engine with capture-group replacement support

  enhancement
  dolph/find-replace#37 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• Add --rename-only and --content-only scope flags

  enhancement
  dolph/find-replace#36 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• Use two-phase rename to safely handle collisions and cycles

  enhancement
  dolph/find-replace#35 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• build.sh uses GNU-only date --utc and arch; fails on macOS dev machines

  bugpriority: low
  dolph/find-replace#32 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• Release pipeline only builds linux/amd64 — no macOS, Windows, or arm64

  enhancementpriority: medium
  dolph/find-replace#31 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• CI does not run staticcheck or govulncheck

  enhancementpriority: medium
  dolph/find-replace#30 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• Missing Dependabot, SECURITY.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CODEOWNERS

  enhancementpriority: low
  dolph/find-replace#29 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• go.mod targets Go 1.19 (end-of-life since August 2023)

  enhancementpriority: medium
  dolph/find-replace#28 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• Build-time version metadata is injected via -ldflags but never referenced; no --version flag

  enhancementpriority: medium
  dolph/find-replace#26 · Filter by author dolph opened on May 16, 2026

• mtime is not preserved after rewrite

  priority: lowreliability
  dolph/find-replace#23 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• find/replace strings re-allocated as []byte for every file

  performancepriority: low
  dolph/find-replace#22 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Stale .find-replace-* temp files from crashed runs are not skipped on re-run

  priority: lowreliability
  dolph/find-replace#21 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• README and CHANGELOG are out of date with new behavior

  priority: medium
  dolph/find-replace#20 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• .git as a regular file (worktrees, submodules) is rewritten and corrupted

  bugpriority: lowreliability
  dolph/find-replace#19 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Setuid/setgid/sticky bits are silently stripped from rewritten files

  priority: lowreliabilitysecurity
  dolph/find-replace#18 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Atomic rewrite does not preserve owner/group; running as root silently chowns files

  priority: mediumreliabilitysecurity
  dolph/find-replace#17 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• BenchmarkNova depends on cloning openstack/nova over the network and uses an SSH URL

  performancepriority: lowreliability
  dolph/find-replace#16 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• filepath.Abs is called for every File, including children of an already-absolute path

  performancepriority: low
  dolph/find-replace#15 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• strings.Contains followed by strings.Replace double-scans the entire file

  performancepriority: low
  dolph/find-replace#14 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Redundant os.Stat call per directory entry duplicates information already in DirEntry

  performancepriority: medium
  dolph/find-replace#13 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Tests do not run with -race; data-race-prone code is not detected

  priority: mediumreliability
  dolph/find-replace#12 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Empty find string causes infinite-substitution / unintended behavior

  bugpriority: mediumreliability
  dolph/find-replace#10 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Binary detection samples only the first 1024 bytes; mixed files are corrupted

  bugpriority: mediumreliability
  dolph/find-replace#9 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026

• Whole file is buffered into memory; large files cause OOM

  bugperformancepriority: highreliability
  dolph/find-replace#8 · Filter by author dolph opened on Apr 30, 2026