On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:46:14PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> But both of these are really just a limited special case for what I'd >> really like, which is given branch "foo", copy it and all its >> configuration to a new name "bar". I.e. both of the hacks above only >> set up the correct tracking info, but none of the other branch.* >> variables I may have set. > > I thought that's what "git branch -m" was for, though I don't know how > thorough it is about finding config that refers _to_ your branch (I know > it handles config _for_ your branch). > > There might be room for improvement there. -m can only rename "foo" -> "bar", but I'd like to end up with a new "bar" with the same config as "foo"