"Brian Lyles" <brianmlyles@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If I'm understanding you correctly, it sounds like you're hinting at > something like this: You may also want to add _READING (I do not know offhand). Also you'd want to make sure resolve_ref_unsafe() returned a plausible looking refname (i.e. passes starts_with("refs/heads/"). But other than that, yeah, doing these as "extra checks" only after we see the primary resolve_ref("HEAD") fails was what I had in mind. Thanks.