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

You can use a script that will archive the branch for you

archbranch

It creates a tag for you with the prefix archive/ and then deletes the branch. But check the code before you use it.

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Usage - $/your/location/of/script/archbranch [branchname] [defaultbranch]

If you want to run the script without writing the location to it add it to your path

Then you can call it by

$ archbranch [branchname] [defaultbranch]

The [defaultbranch] is the branch that it will go to when the archiving is done. There are some issues with the color coding but other then that it should work. I've been using it in projects for a long time, but it is still under development.