From: Christian Couder Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:05:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] update-ref: add symref oriented commands Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20240412095908.1134387-1-knayak@gitlab.com> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:11 PM Karthik Nayak wrote: > The 'symref-update' command can be used to update a symref, create a symref, > delete a symref or even convert an existing regular ref to a symref. Wherein > like the regular 'update' command, the zero OID can be used to create/delete > a symref. Is it possible to also convert a symref to a regular ref, like when HEAD becomes detached? > 2. The flow is now changedc to send an old_ref, new_ref pair in supplement to s/changedc/changed/ > the existing old_oid, new_oid pair to the reference backends. This allows the > backends to simply do a combination of changes based on what values are set. I had a number of comments and questions when reading the first few patches in this series. I also took a very quick look at the rest of the series, but I think answering my questions about the first few patches would make reading the rest of the series easier, so I will take a deeper look later. Thanks.