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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wro=
te:
> I would rather think that "git push" should notice that */HEAD is a s=
ymref
> and refrain from pushing it. =C2=A0Stated more precisely,
>
> =C2=A0- It is perfectly fine to do this:
>
> =C2=A0 $ git push there HEAD:somebranch
>
> =C2=A0- But it does not make sense to push a symref via
>
> =C2=A0 [remote "there"]
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0push =3D refs/*:refs/*
>
> =C2=A0 to a bare repository that is used as a back-up mirror by inclu=
ding
> =C2=A0 refs/HEAD:refs/HEAD in the result of wildcard expansion.

But nothing prevents the destination repo from having arbitrary
symrefs. And there is no way for the source to know which destination
refs may be symrefs and which are not.

So it seems safer to me that the destination should ignore duplicates
in the received list.

No?

j.