On 5 September 2017 at 23:26, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I noticed the HEAD funniness, too, when looking at this earlier. I agree >> with Junio that it's not quite consistent with the general rule of >> "string list items point to their refnames", but I don't think it >> matters in practice. > > Yup, we are on the same page; the "fix" I was alluding to would look > exactly like what you wrote below, but I agree the distinction does > not matter in practice. IOW, I do not think the code after Martin's > fix is wrong per-se. Well, "not wrong per-se" tells me you'd feel slightly more comfortable about the state of things if we did this. ;) I'll take Peff's hint, tweak/add comments for correctness and symmetry with the previous patch and add an if-BUG for symmetry. Peff: Do I have your sign-off? (Do I need it?) Junio: The topic is in pu as ma/split-symref-update-fix. Re-roll or new topic or as a separate "patch 4/3" for you to place on top, any preference? If we re-roll, would you prefer Peff's much smaller take on patch 2 (strbuf_release where it matters, instead of sprinkling "goto out" all over)? I think me and him agreed that we'd be fine either way. I'd reuse my commit message, if I get his sign-off and "From:". Obviously, if Michael or anyone else has any input, I'm open to that as well.. Martin