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Re: renaming remote branches

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2009, 13:09 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Not only is this not user-friendly, but it does not preserve any branch
> config or reflog at the remote (both things that "branch -m" does).
I wonder whether we should:

a) teach git remote a rename-branch sub-command b) add support on the remote side for properly preserving the config and reflog

Thoughts?
j.
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