Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2007, 05:48 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580705152248w254e4201w65da1e1ad229f6ee@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <464A940C.3080906@garzik.org>

On 5/16/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -m upstream-fixes tmp
> error: Could not open config file!
> fatal: Branch rename failed

This should have been fixed in v1.5.1.1, what version do you run?

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> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git-branch -m upstream-fixes tmp
> fatal: A branch named 'tmp' already exists.
>
> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -D tmp
> Deleted branch tmp.

Could you try to run "git log -g" and see if it finds your lost branch?

-- 
larsh