Re: Archiving off old branches

On 2014-04-23 10:58, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Tim Chase wrote:

quoted

  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