From: Kevin P. Fleming Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:10:50 GMT Subject: Re: What's the definition of a valid Git symbolic reference? Message-ID: <4D5FC15A.30309@digium.com> In-Reply-To: <4D5A0901.7080202@dbservice.com> On 02/14/2011 11:02 PM, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > 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. Being able to manually point HEAD at a ref is actually useful; when I've created repos that start out with a 'vendor branch', I want to do the initial import into a branch called 'upstream', not 'master'. Using 'git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/upstream' in a brand-new repo allows that to happen, and works quite well. Please don't take it away :-) -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA skype: kpfleming | jabber: kfleming@digium.com Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org