Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:54:35 -0400

Lars Hjemli wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git branch -m upstream-fixes tmp
>> error: Could not open config file!
>> fatal: Branch rename failed
> 
> This should have been fixed in v1.5.1.1, what version do you run?

[jgarzik@core ~]$ rpm -q git-core
git-core-1.5.0.6-1.fc6

>> [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.
> 
> Could you try to run "git log -g" and see if it finds your lost branch?

Doesn't seem to..

Thanks,

	Jeff