From: Dongas <dongas86@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:58:05 GMT
Subject: Re: A question about changing remote repo name
Message-ID: <60ce8d251001051958p726e7dadp9a8a778a0e6c1b11@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c1b8b6671001051607j6b6398d8gf08f7615a38de64e@mail.gmail.com>

2010/1/6 Russell Steicke <russellsteicke@gmail.com>:
> 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