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Can someone confirm what the contents of refs/heads/master means?

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davetron5000 <davetron5000@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 8, 2008, 19:23 UTC
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I'm using git-svn to interact with an SVN repo that has branches.
After my clone via:
git svn clone $REPO/main -T trunk -b branches -t tags

my 'master' branch pointed to one of the branches in svn and not to the main trunk. (my .git/config looked correct for svn interaction, i.e. trunk pointed to the right place).

So, I overwrote refs/heads/master with the contents of refs/remotes/ trunk (i.e. the SHA-1 of the svn trunk).

Things seem to be working; git svn dcommit commits to the trunk and git svn rebase updates from svn's trunk.

So, I want to make sure that refs/heads/master actuall does, in fact, point to the head revision of whatever branch is considered "master". Can someone comfirm this (or provide the actual explanation if I'm wrong?)

Thanks!
Dave
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