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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: HEAD file location
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, mfine <eboats@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a Git project and had a question about HEAD.
>
> In our remote Git repository, I see the file
>
> git_repo_home/HEAD
>
> and another file
>
> git_repo_home/refs/heads/HEAD
>
> The content of the former file is =C2=A0refs/heads/master =C2=A0which=
 looks ok because
> we want HEAD pointing at master.
>
> However, should the latter file exist? =C2=A0I had thought only branc=
hes
> should exist in /refs/heads and HEAD isn't a branch right? =C2=A0I'm =
wondering
> if we erroneously created a HEAD branch.

Yes.  Someone did something like 'git push origin HEAD:HEAD'