ref: with git update-ref?

From: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2024, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <D4T9VCF8OS6U.1FMB8P6YU7I3S@ferdinandy.com>

Hi,

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:".

After fumbling around a bit and getting errors like

fatal: ref:refs/remotes/origin/test: not a valid SHA1

I looked in builtin/update-ref.c and I do not see a call to refs_update_symref nor any checks for "ref:". Am I missing something here?

Thanks, Bence

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