Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 09:19:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Taylor Blau [off-list ref] writes:

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I am a little uncomfortable with the idea that a 'git pull' would modify
'refs/{heads,tags}' in addition to 'refs/remotes'.

Those who want to rename their own branches should be allowed to do
so easily when it is convenient for them to do so, whether the
reason for renaming their local branch is because their upstream
renamed the branches they are interested in and have good reasons to
use the same name, or because they made a typo when they created
their local brnach, but I do not think renaming the local branch
should be done automatically.

I agree that doing so automatically would not be welcome.

I like your idea in this thread about doing so with a small helper
script. I would even be OK with something in contrib that understands
'--dry-run' (to print what it would have done) and '--all' (to rename
all tracking refs at once).

Thanks,
Taylor