Re: [RFC] git-branch: add options and tests for branch renaming

From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Nov 28, 2006, 15:03 UTC
Message-ID: <456C4FCE.6090306@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <11647252603530-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

Lars Hjemli wrote:

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> Extend git-branch with the following options:
> 
>   git-branch -m|-M [<oldbranch>] newbranch
> 
> The -M variation is required to force renaming over an exsisting
> branchname.
> 
> This also indroduces $GIT_DIR/RENAME_REF which is a "metabranch"
> used when renaming branches. It will always hold the original sha1
> for the latest renamed branch.
> 
> Additionally, if $GIT_DIR/logs/RENAME_REF exists, all branch rename
> events are logged there.
> 
> Finally, some testcases are added to verify the new options.

Ok, I have been feeling uneasy about rename and reflogs for a while now.
 About removing reflogs too for that matter.

In my mind the ref log is about tracking what a ref points to. So I want to be able to say "what was next, yesterday". Do I care if its not there now? Perhaps I want a rename to just put a rename from in the top of the new reflog and leave the old there.

Yep, no idea how we would clean them up with this model.  But ...