From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 17:01:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] t1508 (at-combinations): more tests; document failures
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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Your approach can NOT be documented.
>
> Ah, I missed that.  The explanation I was looking for is:
>
> HEAD has been special right from the start, and we cannot elevate
> anything else to its status now.

We can, but do we _need_ to? Adding another magical symbolic ref that
has limited scope should not be a huge task, as the effects can be
documented, but another magical symbolic ref that does *exactly* the
same as HEAD would require too many changes in the code and
documentation it's not even worth considering, especially if we don't
_need_ to.

-- 
Felipe Contreras