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Re: Archiving off old branches

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2014, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20140423175820.GE15516@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20140423120850.3f6fb535@bigbox.christie.dr>
Hi,
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, Jonathan

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