Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was able to spare some time to dig into this and found a few things. > > First, it seems that the issue is more generic and the BUG kicks in > whenever HEAD is not a symbolic ref. Interesting. Shortly we'll be rewinding the tip of 'next', and it is a good opportunity to kick any not-so-well-cooked topic back to 'pu', so let's figure out what is going on after that happens (at which point let's eject the "branch name sanity" topic out of 'next').