Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2. We change the syntax to something like > > symref-update SP <ref> SP <new-ref> [SP (ref <old-target> | oid > <old-oid>)] LF > > this would remove any ambiguity since the user specifies the data type > they're providing. Yup. Being explicit helps, especially if you are only dealing with programs that do not complain "that's too many keystrokes" like pesky humans ;-). When the topic's overall title is to add support for symbolic refs to the update-ref command, a natural expectation is that in a far enough future everything that can be done with "git symbolic-ref" can be done with "git update-ref" and we can, if we wanted to, depreate "git symbolic-ref". Is that really what is going on here? IOW, we should add support for operation modes other than "--stdin" as well, shouldn't we? Thanks.
