From: "Fredrik Kuivinen" <frekui@gmail.com>
To: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Teach git-branch howto rename a branch
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:39:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c8ef70611250239h4e03b9c7k971b60187aa0f56d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164409429445-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>
On 11/25/06, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> wrote:
> This adds a '--rename' option to git branch. If specified, branch
> creation becomes branch renaming.
>
> With a single branchname, the current branch is renamed and .git/HEAD is
> updated.
>
> With two branchnames, the second name is renamed to the first.
Nice idea. But wouldn't it be more sensible to rename the first branch to the
second instead of the other way around? That is, the syntax would be
git branch --rename FROM TO
which is more similar to how "mv" works.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-25 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-24 23:03 [RFC] Teach git-branch howto rename a branch Lars Hjemli
2006-11-25 5:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-25 6:49 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-25 8:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-25 8:57 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-25 9:16 ` Lars Hjemli
2006-11-25 10:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-25 10:52 ` Lars Hjemli
2006-11-25 7:12 ` [PATCH] git-branch -D: make it work even when on a yet-to-be-born branch Junio C Hamano
2006-11-25 8:52 ` [RFC] Teach git-branch howto rename a branch Lars Hjemli
2006-11-25 10:39 ` Fredrik Kuivinen [this message]
2006-11-25 11:00 ` Lars Hjemli
2006-11-26 23:56 ` Josef Weidendorfer
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