Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Your log message for the patch needs to be updated by summarizing
> the above better.
Here is my attempt.
"git show-ref HEAD" used with "--verify" (because the user is
not interested in seeing refs/remotes/origin/HEAD), and used
with "--head" (because the user does not want HEAD to be
filtered out), i.e. "git show-ref --head --verify HEAD", did
not work as expected.
Instead of insisting that the input begins with "refs/", allow
"HEAD" when "--head" is given in the codepath that handles
"--verify", so that all valid full refnames including HEAD are
passed to the same output machinery.