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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: git push to a non-bare repository
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:58:11 +1200
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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> receive-pack isn't updating the HEAD reflog as its updating the
> actual branch, not HEAD.  If you pushed instead to HEAD you should
> see the HEAD reflog entry too.
>   

What about splitting HEAD when you push to the underlying branch, and
making HEAD a non-symref?

Sam.