On Okt 11 2024, Bence Ferdinandy wrote:
> the documentation for `git update-ref` has this sentence:
>
>> It also allows a "ref" file to be a symbolic pointer to another
>> ref file by starting with the four-byte header sequence of
>> "ref:".
This is about the format of the reference to be updated, not the
<new-oid> argument.
See gitglossary(1):
symref
Symbolic reference: instead of containing the SHA-1 id itself, it
is of the format ref: refs/some/thing and when referenced, it
recursively dereferences to this reference. HEAD is a prime
example of a symref. Symbolic references are manipulated with the
git-symbolic-ref(1) command.
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