From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 12:53:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-update-ref: add --no-deref option for overwriting/detaching ref
Message-ID: <20070509125306.GV942MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070509123914.GO4489@pasky.or.cz>

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:39:14PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:33:20PM CEST, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option
> > instead of the handcrafted command sequence.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
> 
> Isn't this what git-symbolic-ref is about?

You certainly can't use git-symbolic-ref now to overwrite a symbolic
ref by a non-symbolic ref.  It allows you to do the equivalent
of symlink/readlink, while we want to _remove_ the link here.

skimo