This set of patches is a preamble to pluggable ref backends. The intent is to use the ref infrastructure for special refs like CHERRY_PICK_HEAD where possible, and to use git plumbing commands to access refs and reflogs instead of directly writing files to the .git directory. This series is on top of pu at 9039c98c. -- 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