From: Nazri Ramliy Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:19:59 GMT Subject: Re: moving a remote branch? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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.