If you show me a way how to do git-symbolic-ref over HTTP, I will be
most grateful. :-)
Hmm, why do you care?
If you do a fetch over http, you'd just fetch HEAD directly. If that's
just a SHA1 (like it will be with a symlink) you'll just use that as the
branch (and don't care about what branch it was). And if it's a symref,
you can see what the branch should be and fetch that. No?
Linus