From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:07:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] add ref content check for files backend Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Patrick Steinhardt writes: >> +* Support for core.prefersymlinkrefs will be dropped. Support for >> + existing repositories that use symbolic links to represent a >> + symbolic ref may or may not be dropped. >> ++ >> +Cf. <20240829040215.GA4054823@coredump.intra.peff.net> >> + >> == Superseded features that will not be deprecated > ... > We should probably do the above together with a new check that starts to > warn about symbolic links in "refs/" such that users become aware of > this deprecation. We'd have to grow the infrastructure to also scan root > refs though, which to the best of my knowledge we don't currently scan. Yup, that is why the above suggestion is on _this_ thread that is about the "check for curiously formatted symrefs, in the hope that we can retroactively tighten our checks later" topic.