On Sep 01 2016, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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. git init recovers it, though. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."