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Re: A question about changing remote repo name

From
DDongas <dongas86@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 6, 2010, 03:58 UTC
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2010/1/6 Russell Steicke <russellsteicke@gmail.com>:
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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dongas <dongas86@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did a few more steps:
>> root@ubuntu:/work/git-repo/free_monkey# grep -wrin 'origin' .
>> ./.git/packed-refs:2:abfae429bb4081043e84681e5ee94102085f87e0
>> refs/remotes/origin/master
>> ./.git/refs/remotes/karmic/HEAD:1:ref: refs/remotes/origin/master
>>
>> Change 'origin' to 'karmic' in above files.
>
> Ah yes, I forgot about those files.  I _think_ (but I'm not certain
> without digging into the code) that it's always safe to rm
> packed-refs, as that file is a cache for quicker access to the refs.
> At least it's never caused me any problems.
>
> In any case, your approach of grepping the whole of .git for
> interesting strings is a good way to learn about the implementation.
Thanks a lot for your help. :)

Regards Dongas

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  2. Miklos VajnaJan 4, 2010
  3. DongasJan 5, 2010
  4. Erik Faye-LundJan 5, 2010
  5. DongasJan 5, 2010
  6. Russell SteickeJan 5, 2010
  7. DongasJan 5, 2010
  8. David AguilarJan 5, 2010
  9. DongasJan 6, 2010
  10. Russell SteickeJan 6, 2010
  11. Johannes SchindelinJan 6, 2010
  12. Russell SteickeJan 7, 2010
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2010
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