Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 09:19:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.

I agree that doing so automatically would not be welcome.

I like your idea in this thread about doing so with a small helper
script. I would even be OK with something in contrib that understands
'--dry-run' (to print what it would have done) and '--all' (to rename
all tracking refs at once).

Thanks,
Taylor