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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] bisect: use refs infrastructure for BISECT_START
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:21:30 -0400
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On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 13:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
> 
> > This ref needs to go through the refs backend, since some code assumes
> > that it can be written and read as a ref.
> 
> And the reason why BISECT_HEAD cannot be treated as a ref, but must
> be treated as a file under $GIT_DIR, is...?

After running some tests on the long version of the series, we can and
should move it into the backend; will add a patch to the next reroll