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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 11:50:47 +0100
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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>

Although if you're scripting it the `--stdin` mode may be easier:

	git update-ref --stdin <<-\EOF
	create <new_name> <old_name>
	delete <old_name>
	EOF

Note that "<new_name>" must be a fully-qualified ref (that is, it must
start with "refs/", so "refs/heads/new_name" for a branch or
"refs/tags/new_name" for a tag).