Re: Archiving tags/branches?

From: Pete Harlan <pgit@pcharlan.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2008, 06:36 UTC
Message-ID: <48FC26DA.10508@pcharlan.com>
In-Reply-To: <200810181532.59883.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland wrote:

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> BTW, the best way IMHO to archive old refs is to clone your repo (with all 
> tags/branches) to a backup disk, and then regularly push (git push --all && 
> git push --tags) your new tags/branches to this backup. You are now free to 
> delete these tags/branches from your work repo (they will not be deleted 
> from the backup unless you use "git push --mirror"). And if you ever need 
> to retrieve an old tag/branch, it's just a matter of pulling it from the 
> backup repo. Nice, clean, flexible, and requires no changes to git.
> 
> 
> Have fun! :)
> 
> ...Johan

Hi,

Thank you; that indeed seems to work and solves the problem of managing refs/archived-tags manually.

Using a secondary repo solely to overcome a flat tag/branch namespace feels hackish. Perhaps git will benefit someday from work in this area, but until I come up with a patch your suggestion should work fine. Just knowing I didn't overlook an existing feature helps a lot.

--Pete