Re: with git update-ref?

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2024, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <16d2d47c-5887-4658-b6db-996dac075828@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f7a7046c-020a-4365-baf4-49184bd2c60b@gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 13, 2024, at 11:34, Phillip Wood wrote:

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>> I do not think update-ref is a tool to modify a symbolic-ref.
>
> Didn't we add support for symbolic-refs to update-ref with
> 'kn/update-ref-symref'? Maybe it only works with --stdin? I've Cc'd
> Karthik for clarification on how it is supposed to work.

Yes. The man page says that you can use the `symref-update` command with `--stdin`.

So the issue or confusion here seems to be that you have to use specific commands for symrefs. git-update-ref(1) won’t try to figure it out.

That seems in line with a plumbing command.

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk

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