From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 17:10:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?
Message-ID: <xmqqvbswjuaa.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140523105047.GA2249@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:11:55PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> After convertion of a project from CVS to git, I'd like to rename some
>> references in the created git repository (before it's published, so no
>> problems here). Is there a plumbing that would do:
>> 
>> git rename-ref <old_name> <new_name>
>> 
>> for me?
>
> I think the best you can get is two invocations of `git update-ref`:
>
> 	git update-ref <new_name> <old_name> &&
> 	git update-ref -d <old_name>
>
> Although if you're scripting it the `--stdin` mode may be easier:
>
> 	git update-ref --stdin <<-\EOF
> 	create <new_name> <old_name>
> 	delete <old_name>
> 	EOF
>
> Note that "<new_name>" must be a fully-qualified ref (that is, it must
> start with "refs/", so "refs/heads/new_name" for a branch or
> "refs/tags/new_name" for a tag).

Shouldn't <old_name> also be a full ref?