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From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: Archiving tags/branches?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:15:49 +0200
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On Saturday 18 October 2008, SZEDER G=E1bor wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:43:46PM -0700, Pete Harlan wrote:
> >  If I wanted to archive those, it looks like this would work:
> >
> > mkdir .git/refs/archived-tags
> > cp -a .git/refs/tags/* .git/refs/archived-tags
> > git tag -d <tag-to-hide> # repeat as necessary
> >
> > I can then maintain a short list of tags that currently interest me=
,
> > but am guaranteed not to lose old branches (say) referenced by thos=
e
> > tags.
> >
> > Is there a reason this won't work?
>
> Yes:
>
> [...]
>
> So, if you put any tags or branches under refs/whatever-non-standard/=
,
> then it gets deleted when you gc (or when gc is run automatically).
>
> I don't know whether this behaviour is intentional or not, but I have
> experienced this the hard way recently.

Go have a look in .git/packed-refs. Then have a read through=20
git-pack-refs(1).


Have fun! :)

=2E..Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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