Git Workflows: Archiving Old Branches

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:57:00 -0500

I decided to take some time today to clean up old sprint branches that have been resting in Git unused. Some for well over a year. I had two goals I wanted to accomplish when trying to come up with a workflow. First, I wanted the list of branches that display with the command git branch -a (which I have conveniently aliased to just gb) to be shortened. Second, I didn’t want to lose any of the commits part of old branches. Sure the commits were already merged into the master branch, but I didn’t want to lose commit chain that was stored as branches.

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Git Workflows: Archiving Old Branches