Subject: Losing branches (whee, data loss)

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:18:04 -0400

Grumble!

When all this started, the branch 'upstream-fixes' exists, and branch 
'tmp' does not exist.  This is my local clone of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -m upstream-fixes tmp
error: Could not open config file!
fatal: Branch rename failed

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git-branch -m upstream-fixes tmp
fatal: A branch named 'tmp' already exists.

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -D tmp
Deleted branch tmp.

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git-branch -m upstream-fixes tmp
error: refname refs/heads/upstream-fixes not found
fatal: Branch rename failed