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Mon, 6 Jul 2026 03:13:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id a8ec7f2e (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 6 Jul 2026 07:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 09:12:58 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Toon Claes Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] builtin/refs: add "rename" subcommand Message-ID: References: <20260630-pks-refs-writing-subcommands-v3-0-deb04de1ecef@pks.im> <20260630-pks-refs-writing-subcommands-v3-5-deb04de1ecef@pks.im> <87o6go2lgt.fsf@emacs.iotcl.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: <87o6go2lgt.fsf@emacs.iotcl.com> On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 04:31:46PM +0200, Toon Claes wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt writes: > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-refs.adoc b/Documentation/git-refs.adoc > > index e6a3528349..ce278c59bf 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/git-refs.adoc > > +++ b/Documentation/git-refs.adoc > > @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ git refs optimize [--all] [--no-prune] [--auto] [--include ] [--exclude > > git refs create [--message=] [--no-deref] [--create-reflog] > > git refs delete [--message=] [--no-deref] [] > > git refs update [--message=] [--no-deref] [--create-reflog] [] > > +git refs rename [--message=] > > So symrefs cannot be renamed with this command? Indeed, we don't support renaming symbolic references at all. This is a limitation of our backends, even though it's not necessariliy a sensible one. Patrick