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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Subject: Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:35:54 +0400
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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:11:55PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> After convertion of a project from CVS to git, I'd like to rename some
>> references in the created git repository (before it's published, so no
>> problems here). Is there a plumbing that would do:
>> 
>> git rename-ref <old_name> <new_name>
>> 
>> for me?
>
> I think the best you can get is two invocations of `git update-ref`:
>
> 	git update-ref <new_name> <old_name> &&
> 	git update-ref -d <old_name>

This should be good enough. Thanks a lot!

-- Sergey.