How can I archive git branches?

Question

I have some old branches in my git repository that are no longer under active development. I would like to archive the branches so that they don\'t show up by default when r

Answer 1

Extending Steve's answer to reflect the changes on the remote, I did

 git tag archive/ 
 git branch -D 
 git branch -d -r origin/
 git push --tags
 git push origin :

To restore from the remote, see this question.