On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:08:08PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think we should. > > t1401 expects to be able to, but if you really do it: > > $ cd /tmp > $ git init throwaway > $ cd throwaway > $ git symbolic-ref -d HEAD > > the setup machinery considers that you are no longer in a working > tree that is controlled by a repository at .git/ because .git/ is > no longer a valid repository, so you cannot even do > > $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master > > to recover. Yes, I think we should, too. The same reasoning from afe5d3d (symbolic ref: refuse non-ref targets in HEAD, 2009-01-29) applies. -Peff