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| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-09-25 19:30:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-10-01 23:19:32 -0700 |
| commit | 9b143c6e155a8eead165b2a813b533e0f3e0018a (patch) | |
| tree | 49593ba36cdb22b5b3011b0a2ede03017fad3b47 /read-cache.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] git fetch --tags (diff) | |
| download | tgif-9b143c6e155a8eead165b2a813b533e0f3e0018a.tar.xz | |
Teach update-ref about a symbolic ref stored in a textfile.
A symbolic ref is a regular file whose contents is "ref:", followed by
optional leading whitespaces, followed by a GIT_DIR relative pathname,
followed by optional trailing whitespaces (the optional whitespaces
are unconditionally removed, so you cannot have leading nor trailing
whitespaces). This can be used in place of a traditional symbolic
link .git/HEAD that usually points at "refs/heads/master". You can
instead have a regular file .git/HEAD whose contents is
"ref: refs/heads/master".
[jc: currently the code does not enforce the symbolic ref to begin with
refs/, unlike the symbolic link case. It may be worthwhile to require
either case to begin with refs/ and not have any /./ nor /../ in them.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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