From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones
Message-ID: <7vk4hyp38i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikBbSt5_WdbuE8a96w1pWBCYLNjMCUCBThjdLdG@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't fully understand the issue, so excuse me if this is totally
> wrong, but wouldn't a rule like 'you can't create a branch for which
> there's already a symbolic ref' do the trick?

But whose symbolic ref are you checking against?  Your own, or ones in
somebody else's repository that you haven't recently updated from?