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-rw-r--r--builtin/symbolic-ref.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
index 9c29a64e43..96eed94468 100644
--- a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
ret = check_symref(argv[0], 1, 0, 0);
if (ret)
die("Cannot delete %s, not a symbolic ref", argv[0]);
+ if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+ die("deleting '%s' is not allowed", argv[0]);
return delete_ref(argv[0], NULL, REF_NODEREF);
}