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  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