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Subject: Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't fully understand the issue, so excuse me if this is totally
> wrong, but wouldn't a rule like 'you can't create a branch for which
> there's already a symbolic ref' do the trick?

But whose symbolic ref are you checking against?  Your own, or ones in
somebody else's repository that you haven't recently updated from?