Johan Herland wrote: > BTW, the best way IMHO to archive old refs is to clone your repo (with all > tags/branches) to a backup disk, and then regularly push (git push --all && > git push --tags) your new tags/branches to this backup. You are now free to > delete these tags/branches from your work repo (they will not be deleted > from the backup unless you use "git push --mirror"). And if you ever need > to retrieve an old tag/branch, it's just a matter of pulling it from the > backup repo. Nice, clean, flexible, and requires no changes to git. > > > Have fun! :) > > ...Johan Hi, Thank you; that indeed seems to work and solves the problem of managing refs/archived-tags manually. Using a secondary repo solely to overcome a flat tag/branch namespace feels hackish. Perhaps git will benefit someday from work in this area, but until I come up with a patch your suggestion should work fine. Just knowing I didn't overlook an existing feature helps a lot. --Pete -- 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
