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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:39:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803163958.GD50799@syl.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh7tjwvkn.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 09:19:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
>
> > I am a little uncomfortable with the idea that a 'git pull' would modify
> > 'refs/{heads,tags}' in addition to 'refs/remotes'.
>
> Those who want to rename their own branches should be allowed to do
> so easily when it is convenient for them to do so, whether the
> reason for renaming their local branch is because their upstream
> renamed the branches they are interested in and have good reasons to
> use the same name, or because they made a typo when they created
> their local brnach, but I do not think renaming the local branch
> should be done automatically.

I agree that doing so automatically would not be welcome.

I like your idea in this thread about doing so with a small helper
script. I would even be OK with something in contrib that understands
'--dry-run' (to print what it would have done) and '--all' (to rename
all tracking refs at once).

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03 12:15 Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 16:00 ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-03 16:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 16:39     ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2020-08-03 19:40   ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 20:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 20:45     ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 21:11         ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04  0:37     ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-04  0:43   ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 17:41   ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 18:20   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-08-03 18:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04  8:50       ` Kaartic Sivaraam

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