From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:58:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Archiving off old branches
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