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 02:40:09 -0400 Message-ID: <464AA749.90101@garzik.org> References: <464A940C.3080906@garzik.org> <7vtzudfgam.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 16 08:40:37 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 1HoDBc-0002Bg-Sq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:40:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757318AbXEPGkP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 02:40:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754457AbXEPGkP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 02:40:15 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:54005 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757318AbXEPGkN (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 02:40:13 -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 1HoDBE-0006Sm-Kr; Wed, 16 May 2007 06:40:13 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) In-Reply-To: <7vtzudfgam.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> 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: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff Garzik writes: > >> 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 > > Sorry to hear that. > > We used to have a problem with "branch -m" when you did not have > a .git/config file (or it was unwritable). I think 1.5.0.X > series and 1.5.1 release had this bug; 1.5.1.1 and later should > have the appropriate fix. Using the latest version from Fedora Extras: git-core-1.5.0.6-1.fc6 > Was this really a "whee, data loss", I wonder...? The branches definitely went away. The sha1-indexed commits are probably still there... Jeff