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Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 3, 2020, 20:40 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> 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).

Another is that the old name must be declared forever banned if we use symbolic refs for this. The mechanism would have fell far short of helping transitioning from 'pu' to 'seen' for example X-<.

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