Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > because they have been supported by Git all along. It simply makes our > lifes easier when we don't have to special-case creations and deletions > in any way. > > So I'd really not want those to go away or become deprecated. That is a good input. Do you have anything to add as a counter-proposal? The "I do not care what was there before" update mode does make it necessary to have a "zero" value for symrefs that can be distinguishable from not having a value at all. Thanks.
