Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] receive-pack: only use visible refs for connectivity check

> > I haven't looked too deeply at what is going on here, but let's make
> > sure to resolve this before graduating the topic down (which I would
> > otherwise like to do in the next push-out, probably tomorrow or the next
> > day).
>
> The issue is that some of the tests assume that hiding "refs/" should
> produce no output from "--exclude-hidden=receive --all". But it will
> also show HEAD, even if it points to a hidden ref (which I think is OK,
> and matches what receive-pack would do).
>
> But because the setup uses "main" as one of the sample refs, HEAD may or
> may not be valid, depending on what it points to (without setting
> GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME it points to master, which is
> unborn).
>
> So the fix is just:
>
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