From: Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:06:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Archiving off old branches
Message-ID: <20140423130619.495e5e6b@bigbox.christie.dr>
In-Reply-To: <20140423175820.GE15516@google.com>

On 2014-04-23 10:58, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
> >   cd .git/refs
> >   mkdir -p closed
> >   mv heads/BUG-123 closed
> 
> That breaks with packed refs (see git-pack-refs(1)), which are a
> normal thing to encounter after garbage collection.
> 
> Hope that helps,

Very much so.  Alrighty...based on that alone, I'll stick to my
archive script that calls update-ref and then deletes the branch.

Thanks,

-tkc