Subject: Re: Archiving off old branches

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:58:20 -0700

Hi,

Tim Chase wrote:

>   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,
Jonathan