Re: moving a remote branch?

From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 17, 2010, 12:13 UTC
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Peter Kjellerstedt > Renaming a remote branch is a two step operation. First you push the

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> 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

I'd like to add (more confusion!:) with this clarification:

The two push operation above rename the branch on the remote side. It does not affect any of your local branches.

If you do "git branch -a" then you'd still see the "origin/zelnaga/featurea" branch.

Doing a "git fetch origin" will get the newly renamed branch from the remote repo and create a local version of it on your local repo.

At this point you can do "git branch -D origin/featurea".

nazri