From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:47:11 GMT
Subject: Re: How to know where a reference name comes from?
Message-ID: <7v4p1tbiw0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqk5ap5xy1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> (I ended up doing "strace -e open git rev-parse git-svn", and found
> out I had a .git/git-svn file lying around)

This has been proposed for a couple of times now but I think it might be
time to start insisting on a ref directly underneath $GIT_DIR to be in all
caps (plus underscore) to avoid issues like this while still allowing
traditional MERGE_HEAD, ORIG_HEAD and friends.