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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cogito --- don't overwrite metadata files in place (breaks CoW use)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:03:26 +0200
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Hi, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> Symlink'd trees don't really make sense to me (they seem fragile and
> somewhat pointless) but perhaps I'm missing something?

You are ;-)  the tree itsels is no symlinked, but HEAD points to
refs/heads/<branch> by default.

Don't clobber that, please.

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