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Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:13:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] refs: mostly remove core.preferSymlinkRefs In-Reply-To: <20240930192826.GA1803946@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:28:26 -0400") References: <20240918232825.2627999-1-gitster@pobox.com> <20240918232825.2627999-3-gitster@pobox.com> <20240930192826.GA1803946@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:13:22 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jeff King writes: > I noticed these because I had a similar proposal long ago, which never > got merged (I don't think because anybody particularly disagreed, but it > fell through the cracks and never got picked up again): > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20151230065343.GA26964@sigill.intra.peff.net/ > > What you have here is (modulo the two hunks above) more complete than > what I have, so I don't think there's anything else to try to salvage > from it. A little bit of the history in the linked commit message is > interesting as to how we ended up here, but ultimately not really that > important. It was useful to find out another reason (which I failed to mention in this series) why symbolic links will be misleading: when it points at a ref that is in packed-refs. Thanks.