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

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

The real trick is that you can't create or update symbolic refs on the
server side using a client. So this would have to be something that
hosting providers allow (and there might be some security implications;
I'm not sure what happens if you create a loop in the symref
resolution).

Another is that the old name must be declared forever banned if we
use symbolic refs for this.  The mechanism would have fell far short
of helping transitioning from 'pu' to 'seen' for example X-<.