From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:11:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?
Message-ID: <xmqqr43kju8o.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140523123503.GB726@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> One thing that this misses (as does your original script) is the
> reflogs. Doing "branch -m" to rename a branch will actually move the
> reflogs, too, but there is otherwise no way to access that
> functionality.
>
> It does not seem unreasonable to teach "git update-ref" to do renames to
> take advantage of this (it would be fairly simple; the logic is already
> encapsulated internally in a rename_ref function).

Sounds sensible.