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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Archiving off old branches
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:58:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423175820.GE15516@google.com> (raw)
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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 17:08 Archiving off old branches Tim Chase
2014-04-23 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-23 17:58 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2014-04-23 18:06   ` Tim Chase
2014-04-23 18:15   ` Junio C Hamano

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