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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Add documentation for virtual repositories
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:20:13 -0700
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm curious if you have a use for this much flexibility. In particular,
> why do the HEAD and refs prefixes need the ability to be separate?...
> ...
> So the virtual repository is basically just a "chroot" of the ref
> namespace.

Yes, that makes much more sense than singling HEAD out.