On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 17:57 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... The code may already > handle it, or there may need even more code to support the rename; I > didn't check. > As far as I could see there the code does seem to already handle the rename. This part of builtin/branch.c is what seems to be ensuring that, if (strbuf_check_branch_ref(&oldref, oldname)) { /* * Bad name --- this could be an attempt to rename a * ref that we used to allow to be created by accident. */ if (ref_exists(oldref.buf)) recovery = 1; else die(_("Invalid branch name: '%s'"), oldname); } -- Kaartic