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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to create tags outside of refs/tags?
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:06:39 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Christian Halstrick
<christian.halstrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any better way to achieve that certain commits are not
> garbage collected than to create such tags. I love my foot and don't
> want to "shoot if off" but I want to make sure the the
> "release-process-machinery" in our company can be sure that certain
> source states are never gc'ed. I can also live with creating normal
> tags 'refs/tags/release/1.20' but would prefer a solution where 'git
> tags' shows only developer created tags.

Yes, I'm sorry I wasn't more careful/clearer in my earlier reply.

> Will any ref underneath "refs/' prevent gc to garbage collect a
> commit? Or only those in the well-known locations (e.g. refs/tags/*)

Anything under refs/ is safe, but you should create a subdirectory so
that you've got your own name-space under there. For example, the
gerrit code review system uses refs/changes/ for its refs.

Because these refs would be outside git's normal name-spaces
(refs/heads and refs/tags), they won't be fetched by the default
(non-mirror) refspec.

j.