On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 5:46 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This is a bit of a grey area, what I mean is that we do allow users to create > > non "refs/" prefixed refs: > > > > $ git update-ref foo @~1 > > > > $ cat .git/foo > > 2b52187cd2930931c6d34436371f470bb26eef4f > > > > What I mean to say is that, by saying "--include-root-refs" it seems to imply > > that any such refs should be included too, but this simply is not the case. > > But isn't that a quality of implementation issue? I'd consider it a > bug once we have and enforce the definition of what pseudorefs are. Yeah, that makes sense. I'll use "--include-root-refs" then. Thanks