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Should "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" be forbidden?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2016, 21:08 UTC
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I think we should.
t1401 expects to be able to, but if you really do it:
	$ cd /tmp
	$ git init throwaway
        $ cd throwaway
        $ git symbolic-ref -d HEAD

the setup machinery considers that you are no longer in a working tree that is controlled by a repository at .git/ because .git/ is no longer a valid repository, so you cannot even do

	$ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master
to recover.
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