Re: [Qemu-devel] Branch/tag renames in git

[François Revol]

> François Revol wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Based on the previous discussion, I've renamed the branches tags
> > > in
> >> git.  It doesn't look like a git pull automatically cleans up the
> > > old
> >> branches/tags which is somewhat unfortunate.
> >>
> >> The new tags are in the form v0.10.3.  The new stable branch is in
> >> the
> >> form stable-0.10.
> >>
> >
> > Ah... so that's why I now get
> > $ git pull
> > error: no such remote ref refs/heads/stable_0_10
> > Fetch failure: git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git
> >
> > ?
> >
>
> git config branch.stable_0_10.merge refs/heads/stable-0.10
>
> Assuming you have a local branch.  I can't see why you'd have an
> issue

Assuming you have git-config too...
maybe it's just too old but again, ENOSPC.

> if you didn't have a local branch tracking the remote branch.

error: forward reference: local branch
I shall read about it first.


François.