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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:04:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 9a0412ec (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:04:08 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] update-ref: add --rename option Message-ID: References: <20260610212800.2892146-1-gitster@pobox.com> 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 Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 11:47:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt writes: > > > One thing that I'm missing from the commit message: what's the > > motivation for this new mode? > > Maintenance of merge-fix database, a kludgy way to manage evil > merges that are needed to deal with inter-topic semantic crashes. > > If you are really interested, see the appendix. Thanks for the explanation! Patrick