Re: "git gc" removes ".git/refs/heads/master".

> Hi,
>
> maybe I found a bug in git. When I execute "git gc" in my local repository,
> git removes the file ".git/refs/heads/master". Is this an intended behavior
> (but why?) or is that a bug?
>
> Some commands to reproduce:
> ~ $ mkdir tmp; cd tmp
> ~/tmp $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/myuser/tmp/.git/
> ~/tmp $ echo "content" > a
> ~/tmp $ git add .
> ~/tmp $ git commit -a -m "first commit"
> Created initial commit 0b67f33: first commit
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 a
> ~/tmp $ cat .git/refs/heads/master
> 0b67f33fff4152a912fdbe8819480b8fc1f2e990
> ~/tmp $ git gc
> Counting objects: 3, done.
> Writing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
> Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> ~/tmp $ cat .git/refs/heads/master
> cat: .git/refs/heads/master: No such file or directory
> ~/tmp $ cat .git/HEAD
> ref: refs/heads/master
> ~/tmp $