[git-buildpackage] DEP-14 conversion: what happens if remote renamed branch upstream -> upstream/latest

Otto Kekäläinen otto at debian.org
Tue Aug 12 21:00:54 CEST 2025


> See https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage/-/merge_requests/53
> and the comments there: git 2.50 handles this gracefully.

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately git 2.50 is only in unstable and
didn't make it into Trixie, so I assume most people will still
continue to run into "'refs/heads/upstream' exists; cannot create
'refs/heads/upstream/latest'


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