I've got a branch for each bug/issue and it was getting a bit
unwieldy. A little searching suggested this
# archive off the BUG-123 branch
git update-ref refs/closed/BUG-123 BUG-123
git branch -D BUG-123
which seems to do exactly what I want -- branches are archived off so
they still have refs, but they don't appear in the output of "git
branch".
Reading up on "git help update-ref", it states that it updates the
name "safely". As best I can tell, the above process does something
like
cd .git/refs
mkdir -p closed
mv heads/BUG-123 closed
Is there something unsafe about this? The advantage to the latter
would be that I could do a bunch of them easily:
mv heads/BUG-{123,234,345,456,567} closed
but I want to make sure I'm not screwing something up unsafely. Is
there some key element to "update-ref"'s safety that I'm missing?
-tkc
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