linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > There is always a current head, known as HEAD. (This is actually a > symbolic link, .git/HEAD, to a file like refs/heads/master.) Usually this is symref, not symlink, i.e. .git/HEAD (or rather $GIT_DIR/HEAD) is a file which contains single line like this: ref: refs/heads/master There is a talk about relaxing HEAD restriction to allow it to contain ref to tag, or bare SHA1 id for "seeking"; you are forbidden to commit to such state. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html