From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:25:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Remove special casing for PSEUDOREF updates
Message-ID: <xmqqwo3btboo.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.673.v2.git.1594329108.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> This gets rid of the special casing code for pseudorefs in refs.c
>
> This is in preparation for reftable.
>
> v2
>
>  * remove special casing of non-HEAD pseudorefs; update t1400 and t1405
>    accordingly
>  * open question: should git-update-ref.txt be updated, when it talks about
>    logAllRefUpdates?

This does make writing ORIG_HEAD and friends a lot more heavyweight
that just "write a 40-byte text file on the filesystem to remember
it for a short while", and it becomes even so with the whole reflog
thing, but I think it is a good longer term direction to go.  

Others may disagree, though.

In any case, if we are changing the behaviour with these patches, we
should update the documentation.

Thanks.