Lars Hjemli <hjemli@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This adds a '--rename' option to git branch. If specified, branch > creation becomes branch renaming. > > With a single branchname, the current branch is renamed and .git/HEAD is > updated. > > With two branchnames, the second name is renamed to the first. Thanks. "--rename newname oldname" feels funny, as already mentioned a few times on the list. rename(2) is "rename(old, new)" and mv(1) is "mv old new". > This seems to do the right thing for both refs and reflogs, but 'make test' > probably should be expanded with some evil test-cases to confirm my manual > testing. Certainly. Let's keep discipline to have tests and docs for new features. +static void rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int force) +{ + char oldref[PATH_MAX], newref[PATH_MAX]; + unsigned char sha1[20]; + + snprintf(oldref, sizeof oldref, "refs/heads/%s", oldname); + if (check_ref_format(oldref)) + die("Invalid branch name: %s", oldref); Although "sizeof type" is valid C, we tend to prefer "sizeof(type)". If you use snprintf(), it would make sense to check its return value. + if (resolve_ref(newref, sha1, 1, NULL) && !force) + die("A branch named '%s' already exists.\n", newname); No trailing '\n' is necessary for die(). + if (!rename_ref(oldref, newref) && !strcmp(oldname, head)) + create_symref("HEAD", newref); +} Can create_symref() fail? +int rename_ref(const char *oldref, const char *newref) +{ + unsigned char sha1[20], orig_sha1[20]; + int flag = 0, logmoved = 0; + struct ref_lock *lock; + char msg[PATH_MAX*2 + 100]; + struct stat stat; + int log = !lstat(git_path("logs/%s", oldref), &stat); This is not wrong per-se, but it made me stop and wonder if we want to error out when we find out "logs/oldref" is a symlink; I do not think we care about it that much, but in that case we may want to say stat() here instead... Just a minor detail. + lock = lock_ref_sha1_basic("tmp-renamed-ref", NULL, NULL); + if (!lock) + return error("unable to lock tmp-renamed-ref"); + lock->force_write = 1; + if (write_ref_sha1(lock, orig_sha1, msg)) + return error("unable to save current sha1 in tmp-renamed-ref"); + if (log && rename(git_path("logs/%s", oldref), git_path("tmp-renamed-log"))) + return error("unable to move logfile logs/%s to tmp-renamed-log: %s", + oldref, strerror(errno)); I am confused with this code. tmp-renamed-ref is not even a ref, you lock $GIT_DIR/tmp-renamed-ref and call write-ref_sha1() with an uninitialized msg[] buffer to write into a logfile. What is the name of that logfile? $GIT_DIR/log/tmp-renamed-ref??? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html