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MNMatan Nassau <matan.nassau@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2014, 00:11 UTC
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<361C9A05-DB96-4786-AEA6-1FEE732613FA@gmail.com>
Hi,
If I have a remote branch origin/topic/foo, running
 $ git remote rename origin renamed
seems to leave directory traces behind: .git/refs/remotes/origin/topic
I expected to see .git/refs/remotes/renamed/topic/foo but not .git/refs/remotes/origin. Is this a glitch?
I see this with Git 1.9.0.
Matan
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  1. Matan NassauMar 9, 2014

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