Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I noticed these because I had a similar proposal long ago, which never > got merged (I don't think because anybody particularly disagreed, but it > fell through the cracks and never got picked up again): > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20151230065343.GA26964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > What you have here is (modulo the two hunks above) more complete than > what I have, so I don't think there's anything else to try to salvage > from it. A little bit of the history in the linked commit message is > interesting as to how we ended up here, but ultimately not really that > important. It was useful to find out another reason (which I failed to mention in this series) why symbolic links will be misleading: when it points at a ref that is in packed-refs. Thanks.
