git-attic

Hello all,

I looked around everywhere for a script that could make it easy for me to store stale branches in refs/attic for possible later retrieval. I don't like such branches lying around in refs/heads and used to tag them to clear them out of the way, but then that makes "git push origin --tags" unusable, since I don't want to push my stale branches out...

Anyway, I wrote my own little script in the end and thought it might be useful to others.

Please Cc [email protected] in replies,
Paul Gideon Dann

Usage: git-attic
git-attic store <ref> [<commit>]
git-attic remove <ref>

#!/bin/bash
###
# Original Author: Paul Gideon Dann <[email protected]>
###

showUsage() {
echo "Usage: git-attic"
echo " git-attic store <ref> [<commit>]"
echo " git-attic remove <ref>"
}

case $1 in
"store")
if [[ ! $2 ]]; then
showUsage
exit 1
fi
if [[ $3 ]]; then

     OBJECT_SHA1=`git-rev-parse --revs-only $3`
     if [[ ! $OBJECT_SHA1 ]]; then
       echo "$3 is not a recognisable commit object."
       exit 1
     fi
   else
     OBJECT_SHA1=`git show-ref -h HEAD | awk '{print $1}'`

fi
git update-ref refs/attic/$2 $OBJECT_SHA1
echo "$2 stored in attic."
;;

"remove")
if [[ ! $2 ]]; then
showUsage
exit 1
fi
OBJECT_SHA1=git show-ref attic/$2 | awk '{print $1}' if [[ ! $OBJECT_SHA1 ]]; then
echo "$2 does not exist in the attic!"
exit 1
fi
git update-ref -d refs/attic/$2 $OBJECT_SHA1 echo "$2 removed from attic."
;;

*)
if [[ $1 ]]; then
showUsage
else

     # display contents of attic
     git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/attic | awk -F / 
'{print $3}'
   fi
   ;;
esac

OBJECT_SHA1=git show-ref --hash --head HEAD