From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Losing branches (whee, data loss) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:18:04 -0400 Message-ID: <464A940C.3080906@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 16 07:18:13 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 1HoBtt-00080K-9O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 07:18:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754665AbXEPFSJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:18:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759891AbXEPFSJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:18:09 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53417 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754665AbXEPFSI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:18:08 -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 1HoBtl-00062p-Sz for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 05:18:06 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) 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: Grumble! When all this started, the branch 'upstream-fixes' exists, and branch 'tmp' does not exist. This is my local clone of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -m upstream-fixes tmp error: Could not open config file! fatal: Branch rename failed [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. [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git-branch -m upstream-fixes tmp error: refname refs/heads/upstream-fixes not found fatal: Branch rename failed