From: Kaartic Sivaraam Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:16:52 GMT Subject: Change in output as a result of patch Message-ID: <1500923812.20078.8.camel@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170724154119.2926-1-kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> The patch in the previous mail results in a change in output as specified below. $ git branch * master   foo   bar Before patch, $ git branch -m hypothet master fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists. $ git branch -m hypothet real error: refname refs/heads/hypothet not found fatal: Branch rename failed After patch, $ git branch -m hypothet master fatal: Branch 'hypothet' does not exist. $ git branch -m hypothet real fatal: Branch 'hypothet' does not exist. --  Kaartic