Hi, On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Russell Steicke wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dongas <dongas86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I did a few more steps: > > root@ubuntu:/work/git-repo/free_monkey# grep -wrin 'origin' . > > ./.git/packed-refs:2:abfae429bb4081043e84681e5ee94102085f87e0 > > refs/remotes/origin/master > > ./.git/refs/remotes/karmic/HEAD:1:ref: refs/remotes/origin/master > > > > Change 'origin' to 'karmic' in above files. > > Ah yes, I forgot about those files. I _think_ (but I'm not certain > without digging into the code) that it's always safe to rm > packed-refs, as that file is a cache for quicker access to the refs. For everybody reading this thread: DON'T! Russel, it would be better if you knew about the mechanism before making other people believe that it is safe to delete a file that is _not_ a cache, but _replaces_ the existing refs. (Just mentioning that you only _think_ it is safe does not help; it is not safe, but people will think that it is safe. Maybe you'll spend those 5 minutes in the future before sending a message like you did...) Hth, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html