Re: How to create tags outside of refs/tags?

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Christian Halstrick
[off-list ref] wrote:

Is there any better way to achieve that certain commits are not
garbage collected than to create such tags. I love my foot and don't
want to "shoot if off" but I want to make sure the the
"release-process-machinery" in our company can be sure that certain
source states are never gc'ed. I can also live with creating normal
tags 'refs/tags/release/1.20' but would prefer a solution where 'git
tags' shows only developer created tags.

Yes, I'm sorry I wasn't more careful/clearer in my earlier reply.

Will any ref underneath "refs/' prevent gc to garbage collect a
commit? Or only those in the well-known locations (e.g. refs/tags/*)

Anything under refs/ is safe, but you should create a subdirectory so
that you've got your own name-space under there. For example, the
gerrit code review system uses refs/changes/ for its refs.

Because these refs would be outside git's normal name-spaces
(refs/heads and refs/tags), they won't be fetched by the default
(non-mirror) refspec.

j.