From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:12:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Message-ID: <7vtzudfgam.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <464A940C.3080906@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:

> Grumble!
>
> When all this started, the branch 'upstream-fixes' exists, and branch
> 'tmp' does not exist.  This is my local clone of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git
>
> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -m upstream-fixes tmp
> error: Could not open config file!
> fatal: Branch rename failed

Sorry to hear that.

We used to have a problem with "branch -m" when you did not have
a .git/config file (or it was unwritable).  I think 1.5.0.X
series and 1.5.1 release had this bug; 1.5.1.1 and later should
have the appropriate fix.

Was this really a "whee, data loss", I wonder...?