RE: moving a remote branch?

From: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Date: Jun 17, 2010, 08:28 UTC
Message-ID: <A612847CFE53224C91B23E3A5B48BAC74483CEEA82@xmail3.se.axis.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of Nazri Ramliy
> Sent: den 17 juni 2010 08:20
> To: Thomas Anderson
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: moving a remote branch?
> 
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > git branch -m origin/zelnaga/featurea origin/zelnaga/featureb doesn't
> > seem to be working for me.  Instead, I get this error:l
> >
> > error: refname refs/heads/origin/zelnaga/featurea
> > fatal: Branch rename failed
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> The error  message could be improved here.
> 
> The reason you get the error is because you were asking git
> to rename a "remote" branch, which it refuses to do because,
> well, it's a remote branch, and for all practical purposes git
> won't allow you to modify any "remote" stuff as they are all
> read-only from our point of view.
> 
> If you run "git remote -v" you'll most likely see that "origin"
> is listed in the output which means that your "origin/zelnaga/featurea"
> is a remote branch because its name begin with "origin/".
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> nazri.

Renaming a remote branch is a two step operation. First you push the old branch into its new name, and then you remove the old branch. It can be done with these commands:

	git push origin origin/featurea:refs/heads/featureb
	git push origin :featurea

//Peter