From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 17:16:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.44.0
Message-ID: <xmqqbk84jwfy.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZdrnvKRl8oGPJxOD@framework>

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?