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

[Anthony Liguori]

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

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori