Re: [PATCH 4/4] refs: do not clobber dangling symrefs

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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Sep 22, 2025, 17:35 UTC

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... But we could add support for "ref <old-target>" to the
> non-symref commands. That is not just a syntactic weakness, but
> something you literally _can't_ do now (convert a symref into a regular
> ref atomically).

OK.  Your explanation makes sense.