Jakub Narebski wrote: ... > As it was said somewhere in this thread, you can use tags (tag objects) for > that, i.e. tag each of the abandoned branches, explaining why branch wa > abandoned for example, remove head refs, and move tag refs to > refs/abandoned or refs/tags-abandoned/ or refs/Attic/ or in refs-abandoned/ > (the last has the advantage to not be included by default in any command, > even when --all is given) Using $GIT_DIR/refs-abandoned/ means changing a number of core parts; think fsck and friends. Better to decide on a name in $GIT_DIR/refs/ and teach the various visualizers to ignore that prefix by default. Maybe even make the name a config item. *ducks* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html