From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:58:00 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I copy a branch & its config to a new name?
Message-ID: <20170322225800.3h2mnnmmj2hbo36c@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX7NDa5o1xSu4HgZ4=kG3mx3U6ja7f3E4yAkFOHDsLdMjA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:46:14PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> But both of these are really just a limited special case for what I'd
> really like, which is given branch "foo", copy it and all its
> configuration to a new name "bar". I.e. both of the hacks above only
> set up the correct tracking info, but none of the other branch.*
> variables I may have set.

I thought that's what "git branch -m" was for, though I don't know how
thorough it is about finding config that refers _to_ your branch (I know
it handles config _for_ your branch).

There might be room for improvement there.

-Peff