On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 19:21 -0400, David Turner wrote: > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 13:52 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > This ref needs to go through the refs backend, since some code assumes > > > that it can be written and read as a ref. > > > > And the reason why BISECT_HEAD cannot be treated as a ref, but must > > be treated as a file under $GIT_DIR, is...? > > After running some tests on the long version of the series, we can and > should move it into the backend; will add a patch to the next reroll Actually, I've looked into this further. BISECT_START isn't a ref because it contains the ref name that the bisection started from (not a symbolic ref). BISECT_HEAD is a ref. Will fix. -- 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