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From: "Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Subject: Re: Can someone confirm what the contents of refs/heads/master means?
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:35:56 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, davetron5000 wrote:
>
> So, I overwrote refs/heads/master with the contents of refs/remotes/
> trunk (i.e. the SHA-1 of the svn trunk).
>
> Things seem to be working; git svn dcommit commits to the trunk and
> git svn rebase updates from svn's trunk.
>
> So, I want to make sure that refs/heads/master actuall does, in fact,
> point to the head revision of whatever branch is considered "master".

I do believe so, yes. That, or an entry in packed-refs.

> Can someone comfirm this (or provide the actual explanation if I'm
> wrong?)

Overwriting internal files by hand feels a little too much like work
for my taste. I would have done something more like "git reset --hard
trunk" (or, if not on master, "git branch -D master; git branch master
trunk" ), but of course you can feel free to do things the hard way if
you prefer. :-)

Peter Harris