Re: git remote rm non-existant-remote

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 28, 2009, 16:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20090628161141.GA7796@sigio.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <540FF00B-9DE7-4C89-9EC3-264B5BDD9CDE@silverinsanity.com>

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:47:23AM -0400, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

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> I was working on updating the remotes for one of my repositories
> (adding a variety of forks) and renamed the origin branch.  When I
> was done, I tried to use "git remote rm origin" to remove the
> branches for the now dead origin.  What git-remote did was remove all
> of my remotes and the merge information for my master branch (which
> was moved off the origin remote).
> 
> This is a data loss bug.  Very bad.  `git remote rm` should either
> refuse to remove a non-existent remote or (preferably) simply remove
> any branches that exist for that remote.

Ouch. That is indeed a serious bug. However, I can't reproduce with current 'next'; which version of git are you using?

> When time allows I'll look into fixing this, but I thought I'd post
> in case somebody had more tuits than me this week.

I think it would be nice to have it delete partial cruft left over, but I suspect just changing it to refuse the deletion will be a one-liner. It would be nice to get at least that out to 'maint' branches as appropriate.

-Peff