Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

Pavel Roskin [off-list ref] writes:

Applying this patch before 1.0 may be controversial,...

If I am not mistaken, I thought the last thread on the list
showed general consensus that symlinks were preferred when
available.  So applying this patch anytime would be
controversial...

but I think there is a very good reason for that.

Which is...?  I do not think this paragraph justifies it:

There should be exactly one git 1.0 repository format.  Now we
have two that are present in the sources and that have
received testing from the git users.

The one format is that .git/HEAD can either be a symlink or
regular file text symref; both variants are tested -- wouldn't
that be good enough?

The only thing I can think of that might be inconvenient is if
you try doing "cp -a" off of a filesystem that supports symlinks
to another filesystem that does not -- probably that would fail
copying the symlinked .git/HEAD.  But if that is the problem,
you could always git-clone, which should do the right thing, I
think.