On 03-08-2020 21:44, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > If we wanted to do this properly, I'd imagine we'd need to add a > mechanism for repositories to convey "this branch that used to exist > got renamed to this other name", not specifically for any "special" > branch name (like 'master'). If we plan to never allow reusing the > old and banned name, it probably is enough to turn the old name into > a symbolic ref that points at the new name, e.g. in my repository > > $ git update-ref refs/heads/seen refs/heads/pu > $ git update-ref -d refs/heads/pu > $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/pu refs/heads/seen > > which would create a symbolic reference 'pu' that points at 'seen' > to say "pu used to exist but it is now seen". > > But that would not work well, as we must allow reusing the old name, > as the primary point of renaming 'pu' to 'seen' in this project was > so that we can accept topics from contributors whose anglicized name > has 'p' and 'u' in capital letters as pu/$topicname branches. Having > a symbolic ref 'pu' would defeat that plan. > Of course. Though, having a symbolic ref of 'pu/seen' to 'seen' would hopefully not defeat the plan while being a little helpful ;) Sharing a thing that just crossed my mind while reading this. -- Sivaraam
