From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:21:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] bisect: use refs infrastructure for BISECT_START
Message-ID: <1435274490.7900.19.camel@twopensource.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq616by0h3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 13:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
> 
> > This ref needs to go through the refs backend, since some code assumes
> > that it can be written and read as a ref.
> 
> And the reason why BISECT_HEAD cannot be treated as a ref, but must
> be treated as a file under $GIT_DIR, is...?

After running some tests on the long version of the series, we can and
should move it into the backend; will add a patch to the next reroll