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Re: [DRAFT] Branching and merging with git

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 17, 2006, 09:41 UTC
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<20061116221701.4499.qmail@science.horizon.com>
linux@horizon.com wrote:
> There is always a current head, known as HEAD.  (This is actually a
> symbolic link, .git/HEAD, to a file like refs/heads/master.)

Usually this is symref, not symlink, i.e. .git/HEAD (or rather $GIT_DIR/HEAD) is a file which contains single line like this:

  ref: refs/heads/master

There is a talk about relaxing HEAD restriction to allow it to contain ref to tag, or bare SHA1 id for "seeking"; you are forbidden to commit to such state.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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