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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:41:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] update-ref: add --rename option In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:10 +0200") References: Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:41:48 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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?