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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.44.0

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 25, 2024, 17:16 UTC
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> That's ultimately the reason why I don't want HEAD to look like a proper
> ref. But doing the "refs/heads/.invalid" workaround shouldn't be too bad,
> I guess.

Isn't the reason why reftable backend initializes refs/heads to be a regular file exactly because we want to reject an attempt to create such a file on the filesystem, though?

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