Re: [Qemu-devel] Branch/tag renames in git

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

François Revol wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Based on the previous discussion, I've renamed the branches tags in 
>> git.  It doesn't look like a git pull automatically cleans up the old 
>> branches/tags which is somewhat unfortunate.
>>
>> The new tags are in the form v0.10.3.  The new stable branch is in 
>> the 
>> form stable-0.10.
>>     
>
> Ah... so that's why I now get
> $ git pull
> error: no such remote ref refs/heads/stable_0_10
> Fetch failure: git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git
>
> ?
>   

git config branch.stable_0_10.merge refs/heads/stable-0.10

Assuming you have a local branch.  I can't see why you'd have an issue 
if you didn't have a local branch tracking the remote branch.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori