On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:35:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > If you don't even have symbolic-ref handy, you can do: > > > > echo "ref: refs/heads/new-branch" >.git/HEAD > > > > That's not generally recommended, since future versions of Git may > > change the ref storage format, but it would work with any current > > version of Git. > > Makes one wonder if it really "works" if .git/HEAD was created by > older version of Git or in a repository where prefer-symlink-refs is > enabled, though ;-) Heh, true. I guess "rm -f .git/HEAD" before would "fix" it. -Peff
