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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: renaming remote branches
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:00:39 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoab6h2fko.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416065934.GA20071@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:59:34 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> In your situation, I would probably do:
>   ssh remote-host 'cd remote-dir && git branch -m OLD NEW'
> but that is not always an option, depending on your setup.

Yup, don't have real ssh access.

>> Also, I note that the old name ("OLD") remains in .git/info/refs, both
>> locally and in the remote; is this a problem?  I can update the local
>> .git/info/refs by running "git update-server-info", but I'm not sure how
>> to do in for the remote repo without having a login there...
>
> If you are not sharing your repo over a dumb transport (like http), then
> the contents of .git/info/refs shouldn't matter. If you are, then you
> should enable the post-update hook to run update-server-info after every
> push (i.e., it is not just the deletion that is a problem, but none of
> your pushes is being marked in .git/info/refs).

Hmmm, there's no way to update the hooks without shell access, right...?

[lots of stuff seems undoable without shell access, i.e., changing
.git/descriptions; it'd be nice if there was at least some way to frob
all this stuff ...]

-Miles

-- 
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-16  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16  3:27 renaming remote branches Miles Bader
2009-04-16  6:59 ` Jeff King
2009-04-16  8:00   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-04-16  8:18     ` Jeff King
2009-04-16 13:09   ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-16 13:50     ` Jeff King
2009-04-17  0:51       ` Miles Bader
2009-04-17 12:07         ` Jeff King
2009-04-17 16:20     ` Dmitry Potapov

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