I did as you said and it turned out I needed to checkout the 2.0 branch before I could run the second line. For others who share the same trouble:

$ git branch -m master 1.2

#check that there are no pending commits:

$ git status

#if you have pending commits in the 1.2 branch, commit and push them first

# check out 2.0

$git fetch origin 2.0:2.0

#now you are ready to move 2.0 to master:

$ git branch -m 2.0 master

Good luck!

Kind regards,

Milo van der Linden

2010/11/3 David Kobia <david@...>

Hi Guys,
I just wanted to let you know that we've now converted (renamed) the 2.0 branch on github to master. To avoid breaking your local github repos, please do the following:
$ git branch -m master 1.2
$ git branch -m 2.0 master
This will rename your local branches accordingly, so that your local master will match the remote branch which is the original 2.0 branch.

Thanks!

David

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