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Jun 18, 2020 at 23:52 comment added Chris Halcrow @Milind Anantwar, what does it mean to "check that the new branch is pointing to it's own ref"? And could you please explain how git branch --unset-upstream resolves the unsynchronised condition(s) to which you're referring?
Jun 18, 2020 at 23:48 comment added Chris Halcrow To explain the steps: 1 = switch to branch locally, 2 = 'move' i.e. 'rename' branch locally (-m), 3 = push 'nothing' to the old branch destination on the remote (i.e. delete the reference to the branch on the remote) - left side of a colon is 'source', right side is 'destination', 4 = push a reference (pointer) to the new branch, to the remote
Mar 23, 2019 at 11:10 history edited Peter Mortensen CC BY-SA 4.0
Active reading. Applied some formatting (as a result the diff looks much more extensive than it really is - use view "side-by-side markdown" to compare).
Jan 12, 2017 at 9:28 history edited Milind Anantwar CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 2, 2015 at 9:00 history edited nickgrim CC BY-SA 3.0
You're renaming the branch, not the repository.
Apr 15, 2015 at 12:50 history answered Milind Anantwar CC BY-SA 3.0