From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:35:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] refs: do not clobber dangling symrefs
Message-ID: <xmqqecryv192.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250922172140.GB2202085@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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.