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Re: A question about changing remote repo name

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RSRussell Steicke <russellsteicke@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 7, 2010, 01:53 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> For everybody reading this thread: DON'T!
>
> Russel, it would be better if you knew about the mechanism before
> making other people believe that it is safe to delete a file that is _not_
> a cache, but _replaces_ the existing refs.
Thank you for explaining that.  I apologise for the misleading information.

I have seen refs in packed-refs as duplicates of those in the refs/ tree. How would that come about?

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