From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:07:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] for-each-ref: avoid filtering on empty pattern
Message-ID: <xmqq34u2q3zs.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <613b85a3-677d-40d8-84b5-69dd5c27cafe@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a bit of a tangent but I've been wondering what the practical
> benefit of distinguishing between "HEAD" and "pseudoref" is.

I hate that distinction too.  The practical difference they gave me
was that we historically never made FOO_HEAD to be a symref, and we
do not want them to be in the future, but for HEAD, it is perfectly
natural to be a symref.