From: Peter Kjellerstedt Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:28:46 GMT Subject: RE: moving a remote branch? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > -----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 > 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