From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:47:23 GMT
Subject: git remote rm non-existant-remote
Message-ID: <540FF00B-9DE7-4C89-9EC3-264B5BDD9CDE@silverinsanity.com>

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.

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.

~~ Brian Gernhardt