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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Subject: renaming remote branches
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:27:31 +0900
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I can "rename" a remote branch by doing:

   git push REMOTE REMOTE/OLD:refs/heads/NEW
   git push REMOTE :OLD

is there any better way to do this (I mean, er... more
user-friendly/less-dangerous/... I dunno... "better" :-)?

Also, I note that the old name ("OLD") remains in .git/info/refs, both
locally and in the remote; is this a problem?  I can update the local
.git/info/refs by running "git update-server-info", but I'm not sure how
to do in for the remote repo without having a login there...

Thanks,

-miles

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