Re: ref: with git update-ref?

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Oct 12, 2024, 06:25 UTC
Message-ID: <87ttdhsuqz.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <D4T9VCF8OS6U.1FMB8P6YU7I3S@ferdinandy.com>

On Okt 11 2024, Bence Ferdinandy wrote:

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> the documentation for `git update-ref` has this sentence:
>
>> It also allows a "ref" file to be a symbolic pointer to another
>> ref file by starting with the four-byte header sequence of
>> "ref:".

This is about the format of the reference to be updated, not the <new-oid> argument.

See gitglossary(1):

       symref
           Symbolic reference: instead of containing the SHA-1 id itself, it
           is of the format ref: refs/some/thing and when referenced, it
           recursively dereferences to this reference.  HEAD is a prime
           example of a symref. Symbolic references are manipulated with the
           git-symbolic-ref(1) command.

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