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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Archiving tags/branches?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:50:42 +1100
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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.