Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> + case "$1" in >> + head) ref=refs/heads/main ;; >> + tag) ref=refs/tags/testtag ;; >> + sym) ref=refs/heads/sym ;; >> + *) ref=$1 ;; >> + esac > > Somehow this indirection makes the two examples we see below harder > to understand. ... It does not help that both 'head' and > 'sym' refer to a local branch ... Ah, this "sym" thing is a (rather unnatural) symbolic ref inside refs/heads/ hierarchy, so the naming makes halfway sense. As it is also used in test_atom, I no longer find it all that much disturbing. Everything else I said in my review still stands, I would think. Thanks.
