Sometimes I work on a feature, and it doesn’t quite work out for some reason or another. The branch will probably never get merged, but it’s still useful for reference later when I want to see what didn’t work when taking a second attempt.
Currently, those abandoned branches have been polluting my branch list. In the past I have cloned the repo a second time just to “archive” them. Tags seem like a better idea.
Any branch older than 6 months is a strong candidate for deletion.
`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
ziml77•1h ago
progval•1h ago
It's not guaranteed not to change. The UI just makes it harder to update.
QuantumNomad_•51m ago
would clobber existing tag
Really wish my coworkers would leave old tags as they were heh.
toenail•30m ago