Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: May 16, 2007, 06:40 UTC
Message-ID: <464AA749.90101@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzudfgam.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Sorry to hear that.
> 
> We used to have a problem with "branch -m" when you did not have
> a .git/config file (or it was unwritable).  I think 1.5.0.X
> series and 1.5.1 release had this bug; 1.5.1.1 and later should
> have the appropriate fix.

Using the latest version from Fedora Extras: git-core-1.5.0.6-1.fc6

> Was this really a "whee, data loss", I wonder...?

The branches definitely went away. The sha1-indexed commits are probably still there...

	Jeff