Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] builtin/refs: add ability to write references

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Reference-related functionality in Git is currently spread across many
> different commands: git-update-ref(1), git-for-each-ref(1),
> git-show-ref(1), git-pack-refs(1) and git-symbolic-ref(1). This makes it
> hard for users to discover what functionality we have available to work
> with references.
>
> We have thus started to consolidate this functionality into git-refs(1),
> which is a toolbox of everything related to references. Until now, the
> command doesn't handle functionality of git-update-ref(1).
>
> This patch series backfills most of the functionality by introducing
> three new commands:
>
>   - `git refs delete` to delete references. This is the equivalent of
>     `git update-ref -d`.
>
>   - `git refs update` to update references. This is the equivalent of
>     `git update-ref <refname> <oldvalue> <newvalue>`.
>
>   - `git refs rename` to rename a reference, including its reflog. This
>     does not have an equivalent in git-update-ref(1), but is inspired by
>     and supersedes [1].

... and `git refs create`, but we can guess what it would do ;-).

Will queue.  Thanks.