From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D7E1F4F8 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757523AbcJTPEe (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:04:34 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] ([195.159.176.226]:36014 "EHLO blaine.gmane.org" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757381AbcJTPEd (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:04:33 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bxEtD-0005FL-78 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:04:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org From: Manuel Reimer Subject: How to rename remote branches if I only have "client access"? Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:03:35 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.gmane.org:119 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have the following branches on my remote repo: new_version master I now want the "new_version" branch to be the "master" and the old "master" has to be renamed to the old version number (in my case 0.2.0). How to do this? Currently this causes me much trouble as I can't delete the remote "master" repository as this is the "remote current repository"... Thanks in advance Manuel