Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?

2014-05-23 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:11:03AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > One thing that this misses (as does your original script) is the > > reflogs. Doing "branch -m" to rename a branch will actually move the > > reflogs, too, but there is otherwise no way to access that > > f

Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?

2014-05-23 Thread John Keeping
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:10:05AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > John Keeping writes: > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:11:55PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> After convertion of a project from CVS to git, I'd like to rename some > >> references in the created git repository

Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?

2014-05-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > One thing that this misses (as does your original script) is the > reflogs. Doing "branch -m" to rename a branch will actually move the > reflogs, too, but there is otherwise no way to access that > functionality. > > It does not seem unreasonable to teach "git update-ref" to

Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?

2014-05-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
John Keeping writes: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:11:55PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After convertion of a project from CVS to git, I'd like to rename some >> references in the created git repository (before it's published, so no >> problems here). Is there a plumbing that woul

Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?

2014-05-23 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:35:54PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote: > John Keeping writes: > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:11:55PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> After convertion of a project from CVS to git, I'd like to rename some > >> references in the created git repository (b

Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?

2014-05-23 Thread Sergei Organov
John Keeping writes: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:11:55PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After convertion of a project from CVS to git, I'd like to rename some >> references in the created git repository (before it's published, so no >> problems here). Is there a plumbing that would

Re: Plumbing to rename a ref?

2014-05-23 Thread John Keeping
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:11:55PM +0400, Sergei Organov wrote: > Hello, > > After convertion of a project from CVS to git, I'd like to rename some > references in the created git repository (before it's published, so no > problems here). Is there a plumbing that would do: > > git rename-ref >