[PATCH] README: Sketch out what tg rename OLD NEW would do.
... as proposed by me and acknowledged by David Bremner and Uwe Kleine-König on
2010-01-27 in #topgit (freenode).
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README | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 495c70b..eab6fcd 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -486,7 +486,22 @@ tg push
repository. By default the remote gets all dependencies
(both tgish and non-tgish) and bases pushed to.
-TODO: tg rename
+tg rename
+~~~~~~~~~
+ There is no such command yet, but here's a receipe what ``tg rename OLD
+ NEW'' would do:
+
+ - Have a clean state before beginning.
+ - git banch -r OLD NEW
+ - git update-ref refs/top-bases/NEW refs/top-bases/OLD ''
+ - for BRANCH in (all branches that depend on OLD,
+ i.e. reference OLD in .topdeps); do
+ git checkout BRANCH
+ sed -i 's%^OLD$%NEW$' .topdeps
+ git commit -m 'OLD -> NEW' .topdeps
+ done
+ - tg summary
+ - tg update as appropriate
IMPLEMENTATION
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1.6.0.4