From: David Turner Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:22:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] bisect: use refs infrastructure for BISECT_START Message-ID: <1435278173.7900.27.camel@twopensource.com> In-Reply-To: <1435274490.7900.19.camel@twopensource.com> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 19:21 -0400, David Turner wrote: > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 13:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > David Turner 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 Actually, I've looked into this further. BISECT_START isn't a ref because it contains the ref name that the bisection started from (not a symbolic ref). BISECT_HEAD is a ref. Will fix.