Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2021-04-23 20:08:49, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > Antoine Beaupré wrote: > >> Before people start throwing things (like `git push origin oldref:newref > >> :oldref`) at me, consider that I've been beating my head against this > >> for a while, and everywhere I look basically suggests this: > >> > >> git branch -m to_branch > >> git push origin from_branch:to_branch :from_branch > > > > Better: > > > > git push origin from_branch:to_branch :from_branch && > > git branch -m from_branch to_branch > > How so? If the remote branch can't be renamed, then the local branch isn't renamed either. > >> I wrote this primarily with the "master to main" migration, because a > >> bunch of projects (including mine) are suddenly, actually migrating > >> their main branch from master to main. Personnally, it's because I'm > >> tired of being yelled "master" from my shell prompt all the time, but > >> naturally, I guess opinions on the matter vary. > > > > Just tell git to stop bothering you: > > > > git config --global init.defaultbranch master > > I think you misunderstood me; I am tired of seeing the name "master" > everywhere. I see. That makes me think we might want a converter that translates (local)main -> (remote)master, and (remote)master -> (local)mail everywhere, so if your eyes have trouble seeing one, you can configure git to simply see the other... Without bothering the rest of the word. I'll give that idea a try. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
