Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> t3200-branch.sh does
>
> git symbolic-ref refs/heads/dangling-symref nowhere
>
> which really depends on that whole "git symbolic-ref does no sanity
> checking at all".
Yeah, once in the past, I thought
git symbolic-ref refs/heads/main master
might be a way to adjust to the new world order without having me to
change my workflow. I can always update master, and main follows it
without me being aware of it even being there.
But it did not work. Even worse, after doing so, running
git update-ref refs/heads/main master
created ".git/master", which was a disaster. Of course
git symbolic-ref refs/heads/main refs/heads/master
would have worked.
I am not sure what workflow the "nowhere" thing is supposed to help.
Of course, with s/nowhere/HEAD/, it is a perfectly sane repository
immediately after "git init -b nowhere", so whatever tightening we
do, we should make sure that
git symbolic-ref refs/heads/main HEAD
keeps working.
