On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matt Draisey wrote: > 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. A symlink HEAD and detached checkouts are simply incompatible. Nicolas -- 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
