RE: Bug report
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rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
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- Jul 19, 2024, 20:40 UTC
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On Friday, July 19, 2024 4:14 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
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>On 2024-07-19 at 18:34:29, Roman Dvoskin wrote: >> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! >> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. >> >> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your >> issue) I renamed an existing branch to a new name What did you expect >> to happen? (Expected behavior) When I git push I expected the new name >> to be used to match the remote branch What happened instead? (Actual >> behavior) I was prompted to use git push HEAD:<old_branch_name> What's >> different between what you expected and what actually happened? >> I expected for the new branch name to be used, as if it was always the >> branch name Anything else you want to add: > >I'm not sure I understand exactly the message that you saw here, and I suspect if I >don't understand, it's possible other people on the list don't either. Could you copy >and paste the exact output you saw here so that we can see what the prompt looks >like and the exact response you saw? That would help us understand whether the >behaviour you saw is a bug or not, or if perhaps maybe the documentation is >unclear. > >Also, to be sure I understand, you did something like this: > >---- >git branch -m foo bar >git push origin bar >---- > >and you expected the local branch `bar` to be pushed to the remote branch `bar`, >correct?
Would not the logical way to do this be: git switch -c foo # Or however the branch is set up. git push --set-upstream origin bar # Sets the association to the remote branch
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