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Losing branches (whee, data loss)

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JGJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date
May 16, 2007, 05:18 UTC
Message-ID
<464A940C.3080906@garzik.org>
Grumble!

When all this started, the branch 'upstream-fixes' exists, and branch 'tmp' does not exist. This is my local clone of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -m upstream-fixes tmp error: Could not open config file! fatal: Branch rename failed

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git-branch -m upstream-fixes tmp fatal: A branch named 'tmp' already exists.

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -D tmp Deleted branch tmp.

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git-branch -m upstream-fixes tmp error: refname refs/heads/upstream-fixes not found fatal: Branch rename failed

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