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Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:57:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 84c7b745 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:57:48 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] update-ref: add --rename option Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 08:41:48AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt writes: > > > A slight tangent: this is part of why I really don't like commands that > > determine their mode via flags: you now have to worry about every > > combination of flags and whether they even make sense. With subcommands > > we at least only have to worry about the set of flags that directly > > apply to that given subcommand. > > > > Makes me wonder whether I should have a look at extending git-refs(1) > > further: > > > > git refs delete [] > > git refs update [] > > git refs rename > > > > I always wanted to do this eventually so that we have one top-level > > command that knows how to do "everything refs". > > That may indeed be a better direction to go, but isn't update-ref > the "everything refs" command already? Well, it doesn't handle reading references, which is something that git-refs(1) already knows to do. Patrick