From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 23:50:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c014fe87-9663-3ff4-9527-bf60ff30d0d9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlfivwvtw.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On 03-08-2020 21:44, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> If we wanted to do this properly, I'd imagine we'd need to add a
> mechanism for repositories to convey "this branch that used to exist
> got renamed to this other name", not specifically for any "special"
> branch name (like 'master'). If we plan to never allow reusing the
> old and banned name, it probably is enough to turn the old name into
> a symbolic ref that points at the new name, e.g. in my repository
>
> $ git update-ref refs/heads/seen refs/heads/pu
> $ git update-ref -d refs/heads/pu
> $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/pu refs/heads/seen
>
> which would create a symbolic reference 'pu' that points at 'seen'
> to say "pu used to exist but it is now seen".
>
> But that would not work well, as we must allow reusing the old name,
> as the primary point of renaming 'pu' to 'seen' in this project was
> so that we can accept topics from contributors whose anglicized name
> has 'p' and 'u' in capital letters as pu/$topicname branches. Having
> a symbolic ref 'pu' would defeat that plan.
>
Of course. Though, having a symbolic ref of 'pu/seen' to 'seen' would
hopefully not defeat the plan while being a little helpful ;)
Sharing a thing that just crossed my mind while reading this.
--
Sivaraam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 18:20 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
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 [this message]
2020-08-03 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04 8:50 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
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