From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D0EC19F28 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235444AbiGaAYX (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:24:23 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40552 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229737AbiGaAYW (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:24:22 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net (cloud.peff.net [104.130.231.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0D3314010 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28096 invoked by uid 109); 31 Jul 2022 00:24:21 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:24:21 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 7883 invoked by uid 111); 31 Jul 2022 00:24:21 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:24:21 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:24:20 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Junio Hamano C , Git List Mailing Subject: Re: "git symbolic-ref" doesn't do a very good job Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 08:18:48PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > There's also some bits in the sub-thread about limiting HEAD to > "refs/heads/", which we couldn't quite do at the time. That might be > worth revisiting, but definitely shouldn't hold up your patch. Hmph, maybe not. The sticking point was topgit, which points HEAD at refs/top-bases. There's a fork here: https://github.com/mackyle/topgit which has been active in the last 12 months and which still uses that convention. So maybe people really are still using it. (Again, neither here nor there for your patch). -Peff