From: Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Archiving off old branches
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:06:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423130619.495e5e6b@bigbox.christie.dr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423175820.GE15516@google.com>
On 2014-04-23 10:58, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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,
Very much so. Alrighty...based on that alone, I'll stick to my
archive script that calls update-ref and then deletes the branch.
Thanks,
-tkc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 18:06 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
2014-04-23 18:06 ` Tim Chase [this message]
2014-04-23 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
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