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by imron 195 days ago
The capability is there.

Just use git rebase --update-refs ...
1 comments
url00 195 days ago
Wow you aren't wrong, the first blog post on Google talking about this is exactly what this complicated method does just built-in.
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imron 194 days ago
To be fair --update-refs was only added in git 2.38 (released in 2022) so it’s likely that OPs workflow came about before this flag was introduced.
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