From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:54:35 -0400 Message-ID: <464A9C9B.70904@garzik.org> References: <464A940C.3080906@garzik.org> <8c5c35580705152248w254e4201w65da1e1ad229f6ee@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Lars Hjemli X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 16 07:54:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HoCTC-00044M-U2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 07:54:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755221AbXEPFyi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:54:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757804AbXEPFyi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:54:38 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53711 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755221AbXEPFyh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:54:37 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-190-194-075.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.194.75] helo=[10.10.10.10]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HoCT6-0006Ea-6w; Wed, 16 May 2007 05:54:36 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580705152248w254e4201w65da1e1ad229f6ee@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Lars Hjemli wrote: > On 5/16/07, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -m upstream-fixes tmp >> error: Could not open config file! >> fatal: Branch rename failed > > This should have been fixed in v1.5.1.1, what version do you run? [jgarzik@core ~]$ rpm -q git-core git-core-1.5.0.6-1.fc6 >> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git-branch -m upstream-fixes tmp >> fatal: A branch named 'tmp' already exists. >> >> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -D tmp >> Deleted branch tmp. > > Could you try to run "git log -g" and see if it finds your lost branch? Doesn't seem to.. Thanks, Jeff