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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It mentions longhorn.

Anyway, regardless, we could certainly make HEAD be a regular file 
containing the name of the head instead.

It probably wouldn't even require a whole lot of changes. HEAD already 
ends up getting some special attention, since most of the things that look 
for refs only look inside the .git/refs directory.

		Linus