From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:02:57 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the definition of a valid Git symbolic reference?
Message-ID: <4D5A0901.7080202@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=FKXqu_psoT+gvyq2c_o8Mej+DgpccecOpQd8H@mail.gmail.com>

  On 2/15/11 4:49 AM, Emeric Fermas wrote:
> Another possibility would be that only git internal symbolic
> references are allowed to live under the ".git" dir (HEAD, FETCH_HEAD,
> ...) and that user defined symrefs should live under refs/. In this

All refs should live under refs/ (except the special ones like HEAD 
etc). It's usually a mistake if someone manages to create one outside of 
refs/. The plumbing commands allow you to do that, but users usually 
shouldn't use those.

tom