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Subject: Re: `git-rev-parse master` not referred to by any ref?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:36:10 -0400
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:26:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It _might_ make it safer to refuse creating anything outside
> refs/ if the name does not contain or ends with "HEAD" (or
> perhaps names that have chars outside "[_A-Z]"), but that would
> restrict future tools that might want to have HEAD-like files,
> so I am a bit hesitant.

Sure.

I would have recovered faster if I'd known had a simple way to get a
list of all the refs that git-rev-parse finds.  Is there an easy way?  I
assume "find .git -name .." will miss packed refs.  Both git-show-ref
and git-for-each-ref seem to ignore top-level references.

Maybe the "refname 'master' is ambiguous" warning could be modified to
list the choices?  I don't know if that would be overkill.

--b.