Hi Pete, On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:43:46PM -0700, Pete Harlan wrote: > If I wanted to archive those, it looks like this would work: > > mkdir .git/refs/archived-tags > cp -a .git/refs/tags/* .git/refs/archived-tags > git tag -d <tag-to-hide> # repeat as necessary > > I can then maintain a short list of tags that currently interest me, but > am guaranteed not to lose old branches (say) referenced by those tags. > > Is there a reason this won't work? Yes: $ git --version git version 1.6.0.2.574.g7d0e0 $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/szeder/tmp/git/archive/.git/ $ echo 1 >foo $ git add foo $ git commit -m bar Created initial commit 0c92489: bar 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 foo $ git tag t $ git update-ref refs/archived-tags/t t $ git tag -d t Deleted tag 't' $ cat .git/refs/archived-tags/t 0c92489da6ec6dfd9875eb590d820fcceb01829b $ git gc Counting objects: 3, done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) $ cat .git/refs/archived-tags/t cat: .git/refs/archived-tags/t: No such file or directory So, if you put any tags or branches under refs/whatever-non-standard/, then it gets deleted when you gc (or when gc is run automatically). I don't know whether this behaviour is intentional or not, but I have experienced this the hard way recently. Regards, Gábor -- 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
