From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:19:40 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the definition of a valid Git symbolic reference?
Message-ID: <F624322D-359A-48ED-A241-622042F77CDA@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinsJkzYggMtNrLRv-qNxRncrXSe6A46Z=d8xkw7@mail.gmail.com>

On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Emeric Fermas wrote:

> - As check-ref-format fails when being passed "first", does this mean
> that it's not recommended to create a symbolic reference at the same
> level than "HEAD"? Or maybe this command is not intended to deal with
> symbolic links ?

I don't know about the rest of your question, but check-ref-format
explicitly states in the manpage that the refname must have at least
one /, to enforce the presence of a category (such as heads/) in the
refname.

-Kevin Ballard