`git push —all backup` will record all of your refs and tags

If you are archiving branches in your own rep, prefix with `ar/` so you can grep -v to conceal them.

See also `git notes` to record metadata an against a commit without changing the commit

I dislike the official git completion script because it’s so slow when working with large repos. On macOS - because of vagaries of the way its file system works - with large repos it’s effectively unusable. Hint to completion script writers: if your “smart” completion ever takes seconds, it’s worse than useless and far worse than “dumb” filename completion.

  git-<command name>

  #!/bin/sh
  # git-archive-branch

  git_branch="${1:-$(git branch --show-current)}"

  git co main &&
    git tag archive/$git_branch $git_branch &&
    git branch -D $git_branch

  git archive-branch ...

How about just

  # rename branch to archive/ prefix to indicate it is archived
  git branch -m foo-branch archive/foo-branch