From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (pb-smtp2.pobox.com [64.147.108.71]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F03D66720B for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="d3xO7Q9t" Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DA91BF17C; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:06:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=tbm0vVv77Cd0jFFpAiwR5JOPRe8d07l9atl2Qz zmm1w=; b=d3xO7Q9te2tEaZ4BeoqserudnbEQHn6QobvYiL3o9/HRuJ/pL7azxC j2AGDFasTh04MigXNISlYQUe/Xa0r2jvpNSeZJ5GKOmCmNn4pyEpY2K/RlLkafIJ w74t4dgpNHLTSKf9pGEpUIWSGBtwlnsiX60BZnwZuEwb43gqrHGzI= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8631BF17B; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:06:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.193.51]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9FEB1BF17A; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:06:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Ramsay Jones Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] git.txt: HEAD is not that special In-Reply-To: <0c93d426-17c3-434c-bbd0-866c31c23f9d@ramsayjones.plus.com> (Ramsay Jones's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2023 21:57:11 +0000") References: <20231215203245.3622299-1-gitster@pobox.com> <20231215203245.3622299-2-gitster@pobox.com> <0c93d426-17c3-434c-bbd0-866c31c23f9d@ramsayjones.plus.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:06:22 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2F5DFBAA-9B96-11EE-93F8-25B3960A682E-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Ramsay Jones writes: >> -may contain the SHA-1 name of an object or the name of another ref. Refs >> -with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA-1 name of the most >> +may contain the SHA-1 name of an object or the name of another ref (the >> +latter is called a "symbolic ref"). >> +Refs with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA-1 name of the most > > Hmm, s:ref/head:refs/heads: right? Yeah, right, not a new problem with this change, but is indeed a good thing to catch and correct. Thanks for a careful review.