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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: renaming remote branches
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:09:17 -0400
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Not only is this not user-friendly, but it does not preserve any branch
> config or reflog at the remote (both things that "branch -m" does).

I wonder whether we should:

a) teach git remote a rename-branch sub-command
b) add support on the remote side for properly preserving the config and reflog

Thoughts?

j.