From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:35:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Where is git checkout --orphan implemented at.
Message-ID: <xmqqa7s1cjkj.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180605175435.GA22321@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> If you don't even have symbolic-ref handy, you can do:
>
>   echo "ref: refs/heads/new-branch" >.git/HEAD
>
> That's not generally recommended, since future versions of Git may
> change the ref storage format, but it would work with any current
> version of Git.

Makes one wonder if it really "works" if .git/HEAD was created by
older version of Git or in a repository where prefer-symlink-refs is
enabled, though ;-)