On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 1:51 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > - <ref>@{literal} only accepts full ref. No turning "master" into
> > "refs/heads/master".
>
> This is already doable by saying "refs/heads/master", isn't it? Any
> ambiguous ones like a branch or a tag whose name is 'refs/heads/master'
> (i.e. refs/heads/refs/heads/master and refs/tags/refs/heads/master
> respectively) won't interfere once you use the explicit prefix refs/
> like so. I'd rather not to see this one added.
If refs/heads/master does _not_ exist, then ref/heads/master can
resolve to refs/heads/refs/heads/master, which I think is unexpected.
"ref not found" error or something should be returned instead.
--
Duy
