Re: moving a remote branch?

[Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com>]

Do I need to switch to the local featurea branch before doing "git
push origin origin/featurea:refs/heads/featureb" or can I do that
while in the default branch?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
>> Behalf Of Nazri Ramliy
>> Sent: den 17 juni 2010 08:20
>> To: Thomas Anderson
>> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: moving a remote branch?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > git branch -m origin/zelnaga/featurea origin/zelnaga/featureb doesn't
>> > seem to be working for me.  Instead, I get this error:l
>> >
>> > error: refname refs/heads/origin/zelnaga/featurea
>> > fatal: Branch rename failed
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> The error  message could be improved here.
>>
>> The reason you get the error is because you were asking git
>> to rename a "remote" branch, which it refuses to do because,
>> well, it's a remote branch, and for all practical purposes git
>> won't allow you to modify any "remote" stuff as they are all
>> read-only from our point of view.
>>
>> If you run "git remote -v" you'll most likely see that "origin"
>> is listed in the output which means that your "origin/zelnaga/featurea"
>> is a remote branch because its name begin with "origin/".
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> nazri.
>
> Renaming a remote branch is a two step operation. First you push the
> old branch into its new name, and then you remove the old branch. It
> can be done with these commands:
>
>        git push origin origin/featurea:refs/heads/featureb
>        git push origin :featurea
>
> //Peter
>
>