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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> writes:

> on a tangent: I posted a patch to write MERGE_AUTOSTASH,
> rebase-merge/autostash, etc. as refs.
> Is that the right direction? They are read like refs, but they are
> together in a directory with other bits of stateful data (similar to
> what is appended to FETCH_HEAD). Perhaps I should rather change the
> read path, so they're always read as files rather than refs?

I think that would be a lot more preferrable.  If a file is written
to record pieces of info, among which an object name happens to be
included, it does not have to be recorded as a ref.  Especially if
it is an ephemeral file like MERGE_AUTOSTASH and FETCH_HEAD.