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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
To: "Pete Harlan" <pgit@pcharlan.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Archiving tags/branches?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:50:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20810171950j9ab85bfi6eddca167f86fda2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F93F52.4070506@pcharlan.com>

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Pete Harlan <pgit@pcharlan.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to manage an ever-growing list of tags.  I've read
> some git docs, but am new to git and wonder if the below method doesn't
> work or if there's a standard practice I haven't run into.
>
> Most of the tags in my repo are uninteresting to look at, but can't be
> deleted.  (Code releases for the most part, or stalled topic branches.)
>  If I wanted to archive those, it looks like this would work:

Is it really true that they can't be deleted? The only reason to avoid
it might be for preventing Git's GC from cleaning them up, but if all
your branches/tags are reachable via "interesting" branches/tags then
you could just slap the tag name and SHA1 in a text file somewhere.


Dave.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-18  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-18  1:43 Archiving tags/branches? Pete Harlan
2008-10-18  2:50 ` David Symonds [this message]
2008-10-20  6:14   ` Pete Harlan
2008-10-18 10:23 ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-10-18 11:15   ` Johan Herland
2008-10-18 13:02     ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-10-18 13:32       ` Johan Herland
2008-10-20  6:36         ` Pete Harlan
2008-10-20  7:53           ` Johan Herland
2008-10-21  2:53             ` Pete Harlan
2008-10-20 14:35           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-21  4:08             ` Pete Harlan
2008-10-21  8:15               ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-21  9:33                 ` Pete Harlan

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