From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lars Hjemli" Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:48:07 +0200 Message-ID: <8c5c35580705152248w254e4201w65da1e1ad229f6ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <464A940C.3080906@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: "Jeff Garzik" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 16 07:48:54 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 1HoCNW-0003Kt-65 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 07:48:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761165AbXEPFsK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:48:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762292AbXEPFsJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:48:09 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.231]:24043 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761165AbXEPFsI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:48:08 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r28so443974nza for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 22:48:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kFiR+n7oE/louEuTM2JYnRVr9ywbUQSJIUzNKuYfip8QkS9Apw2LoTKCQDpXd+dZL4mKFYH1JXxol/J0ZCh0ngr9dnM1AEpFAFFtrykX5SI8ia5UZ6Ax4lYmVtOXbBr4i7hM9sq095QsTtcyMLG8xsM+7qoZAX5B3DvA0MawOpU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=My8px0uzKQMb3BEaUK6CaiXerKN9U73arfs/p/KGrgFIs7YipLbuPdVnAj26T5oEjauwojn6w+6OAYfC2Gyif9564RosOrabFourty6nwVn3mNDLO0H8qZdkpIMrjrKOQJSDL6uQv0Z0R+lVbQHLpeZW+ci+UoRSvOimft14t5E= Received: by 10.114.89.1 with SMTP id m1mr1984499wab.1179294487638; Tue, 15 May 2007 22:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.235.4 with HTTP; Tue, 15 May 2007 22:48:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <464A940C.3080906@garzik.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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@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? -- larsh