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Subject: Re: Detached checkout will clobber branch head when using symlink
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On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:17 -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Hmm. I don't think we have shipped with a symlink HEAD for quite a long
> time. Using one obviously doesn't work with detached HEAD, but also
> would fail with packed refs. I don't know if we ever deprecated it.

I am using the following system defaults:

core.prefersymlinkrefs=true
gc.packrefs=false

so almost all my git repositories are still using a symlink HEAD.
I have some old scripts That I use occasionally and still depend on it.
Using detached checkout is the only problem I've had.