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Re: [BUG?] git branch -m doesn't update tracked branch config

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 15, 2012, 20:52 UTC
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Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com> writes:
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> $ git branch --track branch master
> Branch branch set up to track local branch master.
> $ git branch -m master newmaster
> $ git branch -vv
>   branch    e8fadc2 [master] foo
> * newmaster e8fadc2 foo
>
> I would have expected branch's upstream to now be newmaster rather
> than master, or at the very least some warning that branch now has a
> nonexistent upstream. Is this intended behavior, or a bug?

I think "branch -m A B" moves everything in "branch.A.*" over to "branch.B.*" and does nothing else.

You would also want to find all Cs that have "branch.C.merge = A" and "branch.C.remote = ." and update A in them to B, or something.

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  1. Dave BorowitzMar 15, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2012

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