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
next prev parent 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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