Re: Feature request: Provide porcelain to manage symbolic references as branch aliases

2018-09-22 Thread Phil Sainty
Updating the proof-of-concept script for this feature request. (See attachment.) I'm quoting the entire original message for reference, just because it's been a while since I proposed this. -Phil On 30/04/14 00:51, Phil Sainty wrote: > Most of the plumbing for having branch name aliases

Feature request: Provide porcelain to manage symbolic references as branch aliases

2014-04-29 Thread Phil Sainty
Most of the plumbing for having branch name aliases already exists in the form of symbolic references, and people do use them for this purpose; but I get the impression that it's not really supported officially, and I'm not aware of any porcelain features to facilitate this use-case. I'd like to