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From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: Emeric Fermas <emeric.fermas@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>,
	libgit2@librelist.com
Subject: Re: What's the definition of a valid Git symbolic reference?
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5A0901.7080202@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=FKXqu_psoT+gvyq2c_o8Mej+DgpccecOpQd8H@mail.gmail.com>

  On 2/15/11 4:49 AM, Emeric Fermas wrote:
> Another possibility would be that only git internal symbolic
> references are allowed to live under the ".git" dir (HEAD, FETCH_HEAD,
> ...) and that user defined symrefs should live under refs/. In this

All refs should live under refs/ (except the special ones like HEAD 
etc). It's usually a mistake if someone manages to create one outside of 
refs/. The plumbing commands allow you to do that, but users usually 
shouldn't use those.

tom

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-15  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-14 20:58 What's the definition of a valid Git symbolic reference? Emeric Fermas
2011-02-15  3:19 ` Kevin Ballard
2011-02-15  3:49   ` Emeric Fermas
2011-02-15  5:02     ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
2011-02-19 13:10       ` Kevin P. Fleming
2011-02-15  6:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-15  6:32       ` Emeric Fermas
2011-02-15  7:09       ` Jeff King

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