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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:19:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh7tjwvkn.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200803160051.GA50799@syl.lan> (Taylor Blau's message of "Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:00:51 -0400")

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> I am a little uncomfortable with the idea that a 'git pull' would modify
> 'refs/{heads,tags}' in addition to 'refs/remotes'.

Those who want to rename their own branches should be allowed to do
so easily when it is convenient for them to do so, whether the
reason for renaming their local branch is because their upstream
renamed the branches they are interested in and have good reasons to
use the same name, or because they made a typo when they created
their local brnach, but I do not think renaming the local branch
should be done automatically.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03 12:15 Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 16:00 ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-03 16:19   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-08-03 16:39     ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-03 19:40   ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 20:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 20:45     ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 21:11         ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04  0:37     ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-04  0:43   ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 17:41   ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 18:20   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-08-03 18:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04  8:50       ` Kaartic Sivaraam

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