From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:31:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default
Message-ID: <tnxek5i42y5.fsf@arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <1132042427.3512.50.camel@dv>

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:03 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The one format is that .git/HEAD can either be a symlink or
>> regular file text symref; both variants are tested -- wouldn't
>> that be good enough?
>
> No.  Even if git itself is tested, other tools are not.  What's worse,
> the developers of those tools don't even know they are supposed to test
> for two HEAD formats unless they track git changes and mailing lists
> very carefully.
>
> In particular, StGIT still needs fixing.

StGIT has been fixed for this in the latest snapshot (but not in the
latest release). It now uses "git-symbolic-ref HEAD" to get the name
of the current branch.

-- 
Catalin