From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:15:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Archiving tags/branches?
Message-ID: <200810181315.49265.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081018102345.GA3749@neumann>

On Saturday 18 October 2008, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:43:46PM -0700, Pete Harlan wrote:
> >  If I wanted to archive those, it looks like this would work:
> >
> > mkdir .git/refs/archived-tags
> > cp -a .git/refs/tags/* .git/refs/archived-tags
> > git tag -d <tag-to-hide> # repeat as necessary
> >
> > I can then maintain a short list of tags that currently interest me,
> > but am guaranteed not to lose old branches (say) referenced by those
> > tags.
> >
> > Is there a reason this won't work?
>
> Yes:
>
> [...]
>
> So, if you put any tags or branches under refs/whatever-non-standard/,
> then it gets deleted when you gc (or when gc is run automatically).
>
> I don't know whether this behaviour is intentional or not, but I have
> experienced this the hard way recently.

Go have a look in .git/packed-refs. Then have a read through 
git-pack-refs(1).


Have fun! :)

...Johan

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