Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is regular

> shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > As I have said in the previous comment, we cannot detect the error if
> > "HEAD" itself is corrupted. However, we will check the referent in the
> > later. So, we don't need to do this.
> 
> I still think you absolutely need to diagnose and tell the user
> about the broken HEAD.  With your "don't check HEAD because a
> repository with a broken HEAD is not a repository", a check run in
> such a place may find everything else in the repository perfectly
> fine, but because the user wanted "git refs verify" to tell them
> about breakages, you would want to somehow tell them about it.
> Either it is missing, malformed, whatever.