Re: Add "git-update-ref" to update the HEAD (or other) ref

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I'd like to take these patches in two stages (I am not asking
> you for a resend):
> 
>  - Drop the emulated symlink part from the update-ref.c; have it
>    graduate to "master" branch and use it in existing scripts.

Sure.

>  - Take the read_ref() change, along with a patch to re-add the
>    emulated symlink part to update-ref.c (after making its
>    interpretation to match that of read_ref() -- which requires
>    the prefix to be exactly "ref: " five bytes); keep it in "pu"
>    branch a bit longer.

I was actually thinking of maybe entirely replacing "read_ref()" with the
more powerful "resolve_ref()" - moving resolve_ref() into refs.c.

That way there's only one place that knows about the "ref:" thing.

But yes, forcing the format to be "ref: " instead of "ref:<whitespace>*" 
sounds fine.

		Linus