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From: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:37:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <baea11c61973ff4be5ad33499d80f8629e2e1261.camel@mattmccutchen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200803194006.GA2715275@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 15:40 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> The real trick is that you can't create or update symbolic refs on the
> server side using a client. So this would have to be something that
> hosting providers allow (and there might be some security implications;
> I'm not sure what happens if you create a loop in the symref
> resolution).

Right, repository administrators need some kind of support for the
hosting provider (whether symrefs or something custom), otherwise the
best they can do is develop their own process to mirror the new branch
to the old branch.

GitHub mentions a plan to support a branch rename that would redirect
at least fetches of the old name, though it is short on details:

https://github.com/github/renaming#later-this-year-seamless-move-for-existing-repositories-

I've just filed feature requests for BitBucket and GitLab:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-20349
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/233427#related-issues

Anyone want to check on other major providers?

Matt


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-04  0:38 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
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 [this message]
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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