From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 19:12:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [Question] Git recovery with HEAD commit broken
Message-ID: <20131211191207.GL2311@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131211161407.GA15939@kitenet.net>

Joey Hess wrote:

> [2] A particularly annoying one is that git branch -d cannot be used
>     to remove a branch that is directly pointing to a corrupted commit!

It's generally considered okay for everyday commands like "git branch -d"
not to cope well with corrupted repositories, but we try to keep
plumbing like "git update-ref -d" working to give people a way out.
Is update-ref -d broken in this situation, too?

Curious,
Jonathan