[PATCH] README: Sketch out what tg rename OLD NEW would do.

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... as proposed by me and acknowledged by David Bremner and Uwe Kleine-König on
2010-01-27 in #topgit (freenode).
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 README |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 495c70b..eab6fcd 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -486,7 +486,22 @@ tg push
 	repository.  By default the remote gets all dependencies
 	(both tgish and non-tgish) and bases pushed to.
 
-TODO: tg rename
+tg rename
+~~~~~~~~~
+	There is no such command yet, but here's a receipe what ``tg rename OLD
+	NEW'' would do:
+
+	  - Have a clean state before beginning.
+	  - git banch -r OLD NEW
+	  - git update-ref refs/top-bases/NEW refs/top-bases/OLD ''
+	  - for BRANCH in (all branches that depend on OLD,
+			   i.e. reference OLD in .topdeps); do
+	      git checkout BRANCH
+	      sed -i 's%^OLD$%NEW$' .topdeps
+	      git commit -m 'OLD -> NEW' .topdeps
+	    done
+	  - tg summary
+	  - tg update as appropriate
 
 
 IMPLEMENTATION
-- 
1.6.0.4

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