RE: moving a remote branch?

From: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Date: Jun 17, 2010, 15:05 UTC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of Thomas Anderson
> Sent: den 17 juni 2010 15:56
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt
> Cc: Nazri Ramliy; git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: moving a remote branch?
> 
> Do I need to switch to the local featurea branch before doing "git
> push origin origin/featurea:refs/heads/featureb" or can I do that
> while in the default branch?

You do not need to switch branch. The command above has all the information it needs on the command line.

One thing to note though. If you have a local branch tracking the remote featurea branch, it will not automatically start tracking the featureb branch when you rename the remote branch. You will have to fix the tracking manually (either by setting up a new tracking branch for featureb, or by editing the .git/config file to reflect the new situation).

//Peter