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 running git branch -l -r. I don’t want to delete them, because I want to keep the history. How can I do this?
I know that it’s possible to create a ref outside of refs/heads. For example, refs/archive/old_branch. Are there any consequences of doing that?