On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:17 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Hmm. I don't think we have shipped with a symlink HEAD for quite a long > time. Using one obviously doesn't work with detached HEAD, but also > would fail with packed refs. I don't know if we ever deprecated it. I am using the following system defaults: core.prefersymlinkrefs=true gc.packrefs=false so almost all my git repositories are still using a symlink HEAD. I have some old scripts That I use occasionally and still depend on it. Using detached checkout is the only problem I've had. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
