From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: Tim Chase <git@tim•thechases.com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Archiving off old branches
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:15:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvbtzzzdm.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423175820.GE15516@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:58:20 -0700")
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:
> 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.
Specifically,
- if BUG-123 branch was placed in packed-refs file in the past
(which may be older than what you have right now at heads/BUG-123
as a loose ref), the above procedure will still make it appear in
your "git branch --list" output, pointing at a possibly old
commit that may even have been pruned away.
- if BUG-123 branch was placed in packed-refs file and you haven't
touched that branch since then, heads/BUG-123 file would not
exist, "mv" will fail, and you won't see closed/BUG-123 at the
end of the procedure.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 17:08 Archiving off old branches Tim Chase
2014-04-23 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-23 17:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-23 18:06 ` Tim Chase
2014-04-23 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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