Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This is a bit of a tangent but I've been wondering what the practical > benefit of distinguishing between "HEAD" and "pseudoref" is. I hate that distinction too. The practical difference they gave me was that we historically never made FOO_HEAD to be a symref, and we do not want them to be in the future, but for HEAD, it is perfectly natural to be a symref.