From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:30:01 GMT Subject: Re: Porcelain specific metadata under .git? Message-ID: <7vpshbeug6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <44900A2F.7050704@op5.se> Andreas Ericsson writes: > Yes, but I understood him to mean "it's a tree-sha" instead of a > branch/head thing, which would mean it doesn't fit the .git/refs > definition of ref. I am not sure what you meant by "it's a tree-sha", but if you have an impression that .git/refs define "ref" as committish, you are mistaken. Linus has .git/refs/tags/v2.6.11-tree which tags a tree object. I even have a .git/refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub which tags a blob (blobish ;-> ?).