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Re: [PATCH 2/4] refs: mostly remove core.preferSymlinkRefs

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 30, 2024, 20:13 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> I noticed these because I had a similar proposal long ago, which never
> got merged (I don't think because anybody particularly disagreed, but it
> fell through the cracks and never got picked up again):
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/20151230065343.GA26964@sigill.intra.peff.net/
>
> What you have here is (modulo the two hunks above) more complete than
> what I have, so I don't think there's anything else to try to salvage
> from it. A little bit of the history in the linked commit message is
> interesting as to how we ended up here, but ultimately not really that
> important.

It was useful to find out another reason (which I failed to mention in this series) why symbolic links will be misleading: when it points at a ref that is in packed-refs.

Thanks.
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Message 6 of 12 in “deprecating core.preferSymlinkRefs”
  1. 0/4 deprecating core.preferSymlinkRefsJunio C Hamano, Sep 18, 2024
  2. 1/4 refs: deprecate core.preferSymlinkRefsJunio C Hamano, Sep 18, 2024
  3. Patrick SteinhardtSep 30, 2024
  4. 2/4 refs: mostly remove core.preferSymlinkRefsJunio C Hamano, Sep 18, 2024
  5. Jeff KingSep 30, 2024
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 30, 2024
  7. 3/4 refs: remove NO_SYMLINK_HEADJunio C Hamano, Sep 18, 2024
  8. 4/4 refs: remove the last remnants of core.preferSymlinkRefsJunio C Hamano, Sep 18, 2024
  9. Derrick StoleeSep 18, 2024
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2024
  11. Patrick SteinhardtSep 30, 2024
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 30, 2024

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